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    Feud On Tisian Hill
    Feud On Tisian Hill
    Feud On Tisian Hill
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    Feud On Tisian Hill

    By David Moody

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    In 1842, Mamaw Molder, her husband, children and kin(and they was a lot of them) moved into the hills of Arkansas, each with a Choctaw Deed. They arrived in Mason County with three wagons, farm tools, livestock, feed and seed and claimed two sections each on Molder Mountain -- where they proceeded to clear land and put up homesteads. Mamaw Molder was a Water Witch( she had the power), and she witched all the wells in Molder Valley. After their children were grown, they gave them the house on Molder Mountain and put up a house on Horsehider Creek across the way from Molder Valley just below Cedar Crick from where her sons built their homesteads. The Molders lived there trouble free for twenty-some-odd years, hunting farming and raising their children ... until trouble came. And when it came it had a name: Culdy.

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    PublisherDavid Moody
    Release dateDec 18, 2014
    ISBN9781311560544
    Feud On Tisian Hill
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    David Moody

    David Moody was born in 1970 and grew up in Birmingham, UK, on a diet of trashy horror and pulp science fiction books and movies. He worked as a bank manager and as operations manager for a number of financial institutions before giving up the day job to write about the end of the world for a living. He has written a number of horror novels, including AUTUMN, which has been downloaded more than half a million times since publication in 2001 and has spawned a series of sequels and a movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carradine. Film rights to HATER were snapped up by Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) and Mark Johnson (producer of Breaking Bad and the Chronicles of Narnia films). Moody lives with his wife and a houseful of daughters and stepdaughters, which may explain his pre-occupation with Armageddon.

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      Feud On Tisian Hill - David Moody

      Feud On Tisian Hill

      By David Moody

      Published By David Moody at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This book is licensed for personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person please, purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respe

      cting the hard work of this author.

      Table Of Contents

      Prologue

      Act One

      Act Two

      Act Three

      About The Author

      Prologue

      In 1842, Mamaw Molder, her husband, children and kin(and they was a lot of them) moved into the hills of Arkansas, each with a Choctaw Deed. They arrived in Mason County with three wagons, farm tools, livestock, feed and seed and claimed two sections each on what came to be known as Molder Mountain -- where they proceeded to clear land and put up homesteads. Mamaw Molder was a Water Witch( she had the power), and she witched all the wells in Molder Valley. After their children were grown, they gave them the house on Molder Mountain and put up a house on Horsehider Creek across the way from Molder Valley just below Cedar Crick from where her sons built their homesteads.

      It came to be known as Horsehider Creek because mares would shelter their foals there and, during the War Between The States, people hid their stock there to keep it safe from horse thieves. The Molders lived there trouble free for forty-some-odd years, hunting farming and raising their children … until trouble came. And when it came it had a name: Culdy.

      Act One

      FADE IN

      EXT. OUTSIDE HAYLOFT ARKANSAS- TISIAN HILL- EVANS CEMETERY - DAYTIME

      DECORATION DAY - 1940

      Cars drive up Tisian Hill to the Cemetery. MICHAEL EVANS, MORRIS EVANS, his wife

      AMELIA, his son JACOB and grandson BAXTER and various Evans relatives and in-laws

      get out and begin decorating graves.

      Morris, Jacob, Amelia and Baxter are walking around viewing graves.

      BAXTER

      Grandpa, why are there no Culdy’s in Culdy Holler?

      MORRIS

      Someday maybe I will tell you that story.

      JACOB

      He is old enough to hear it if he wants to know.

      MORRIS

      Then I will tell it to him.

      JACOB

      Son, go with your Grandfather.

      BAXTER

      Okay, Dad.

      MORRIS

      Let’s go find a place to sit and talk.

      Morris and Baxter find a bench and sit down.

      MORRIS

      Up on Granite Hill they called what happened the Molder-Culdy War. Down here in Hayloft they called it the Three County War. I had parts of this story from your Great-Grandma and her Aunt Martha Flynn. It all started in 1879. Your Great-Grandma had only been married a year. They settled on here on Tisian Hill...

      RURAL ARKANSAS - 1879

      EXT. GRANITE HILL ARKANSAS - THE EVANS FARMHOUSE - EVENING

      CHARLES EVANS comes out onto the porch and sits down in a chair.

      JOY EVANS is in the doorway.

      JOY

      The baby is asleep. There is coffee still on the stove.

      CHARLES

      That would be nice.

      Joy pours two cups of coffee and comes out onto the porch.

      She hands one cup to Charles and sits down.

      Charles takes a sip. Joy takes a silver flask out of her apron pocket.

      JOY

      Let me lace your coffee.

      CHARLES

      Well, it is medicinal, after all.

      JOY

      Come and take your medicine.

      Charles holds out his cup. Joy pours a dollop into each of their cups.

      CHARLES

      We have made a good start.

      JOY

      It is going to be good once we have the smokehouse finished.

      The Moon is full. They sit looking at the Moon while they finish their coffee.

      EXT. GRANITEVILLE ARKANSAS - THE TOWN SQUARE - MORNING

      BENJAMIN ‘DEWC’ MOLDER rides into town.

      RICHARD CULDY and HORACE CULDY come out of the Mercantile Store.

      RICHARD

      Well ... if it ain’t the famous tracker. Whose business have you been messin’ into now?

      DEWC

      I’m just tendin’ my own affairs. You go to pickin’ fights with people ‘cause you don’t like what they say. People wouldn’t be messin’ with you if you’d stay off their land.

      HORACE

      Is that so? You needn’t trouble yourself about something that ain’t your business.

      DEWC

      Y’all done something you don’t want to own up to and you call it trouble when someone calls you out on it.

      INTERCUT:

      Dewc’ has his left hand on a pistol tucked into the backband of his trousers.

      DEWC

      Well, if you’ve got something stuck in your craw and you want trouble I can accommodate you right now.

      HORACE

      No, this ain’t the time and place. We’ll see you another time.

      DEWC

      That’s fine with me ... ya’ll come onto my land sometime and see what happens.

      Horace and Richard mount up and leave.

      Dewc’ rides out of town.

      EXT. GRANITEVILLE ARKANSAS - THE MERCANTILE STORE - MORNING

      Two men, JOHN ALLEN and WALTER WILLIAMS ride up and dismount.

      They hitch up and go into the store.

      INT. GRANITEVILLE ARKANSAS - THE MERCANTILE STORE - MORNING

      STOREKEEPER

      Howdy. What can I do you for?

      JOHN

      We want to do some hunting and we are looking for a hunting guide.

      STOREKEEPER

      What are you wanting to hunt?

      WALTER

      Deer.

      STOREKEEPER

      Well, BENJAMIN MOLDER comes to mind. He’s about the best ‘round here. Folks say he can trail an animal just by the track of its dewclaw. Most people just call him DEWC’. He might take you into the deer woods.

      JOHN

      How would we find him?

      STOREKEEPER

      Them Molder’s all live across the Valley on Molder Mountain. You take the wagon road North until you come to the Evans farm. Joy Evans is his sister. Charles and Joy can tell you whereabouts to find Dewc’.

      WALTER

      Thank

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