BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS
The Hit Western Series and Other Writings

Mt. Borah, Lost River Range, central Idaho. The fault scarp from the earthquake that hit this area in 1983 is clearly visible decades later across the foothills.

What the heck is this place?

Long story short: I started writing this series in my senior year of high school, and up till the creation of this website I was just writing it for friends and such. It's generally centered on some guy named Mike "Little Man" Limber and his experiences across the western US around the turn of the 20th century.

Long story long: Towards the end of my senior year of high school, I put together a collection of some short stories I'd written for old friends and teachers as a "senior parting gift." I ended up calling the collection "Big Rock Candy Mountains" after the song of the same name, and included were several Western short stories mostly about some guy named Mike "Little Man" Limber and his experiences in a gang as well as on his own. (Why yes, I have played Red Dead Redemption, how could you tell?) Anyway, I liked the end result enough that I made it a yearly thing when I went to college, with the original collection becoming BRCM 1: I'd start a new BRCM every September and work on it in my free time before sending the finished product to my friends in May. Starting with BRCM 2, however, every subsequent entry in the series has been a single longer story rather than a collection of shorter ones.

So your ego's big enough that you feel the things you've written now deserve to be read by Internet strangers?

Well, when you put it like that...

Why is it called "Big Rock Candy Mountains?"

I named the series after the song of the same name because the song is all about these mythical, larger-than-life things you can supposedly find in the titular mountain range, which is exactly the sorta stuff you can find in this series. What do I mean? Well, if you want Westerns with kaijus, a zombie, bad trips, government conspiracies, sasquatch, raining scorpions, and much more, then you're in luck.

The name's pretty much stuck by now, but just for the record, an alternate name for the series would be "Just Deserts," from the phrase "to receive one's just deserts" (pronounced "desserts"), as a big theme in the series is characters not always making the smartest decisions (just like how we in real life don't always make the smartest decisions either, though it's exaggerated in the series for fiction's sake) and usually paying for it. But it would also work because, you know... deserts are usually where Westerns take place.

Will I like the series?

I think most people could like it, although there's a few groups who will theoretically appreciate it the most:

-Fans of Westerns

-Progressive rock fans

-Bassists

-Also, if you're a musician and/or you know music theory/history, you might like a lot of the memes in the meme section, many of which have to do with that sorta thing. (The above groups will also appreciate a lot of the memes.)

A couple things to keep in mind, though: I'm not a professional writer or anything, and I have a fairly straightforward style which might not be for everyone, which is fine; if you don't care so much for the series, perhaps you'll enjoy my other short stories. And that said, the writing does get better with each entry in the series (theoretically), and I usually try to improve on issues in the latest BRCM that were present in the previous BRCM(s).

What kind of a name is "Limber," anyway?

And without further ado...

BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS 1: THE CHRONICLES OF MIKE "LITTLE MAN" LIMBER

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18asRBjPg2nLqJ4ZbUQiDhEwfZLAbKTzNfsTFJeEFe9Y/edit?tab=t.0

BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS 2: VANCOUVER MANEUVER

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NArMYKMHJy5v-CvesuCPtljvjB1a3RiI0LzfsIGxMEg/edit?tab=t.0

BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS 3: ROBBING ONE OUT

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ydkQ-9ZxhxBlLr1AUrkK-7-QADZItEQ1zUqAvBoWHsM/edit?tab=t.0

BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS 4, PART 1: THE STORY OF FURIOUS FRANK'S SPOUSE CITY MOUNTAIN RODEO, C. 1891

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OLjf8zh_RmXZLcdSxNA7hjoxTlENOrnHYUtclIo-COw/edit?tab=t.0

BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS 4, PART 2: RAISING (HELL IN) ARIZONA

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kn0IxubcUFa_CmjMFZXUvVXSw7gw4YlfxWt31OGmYD0/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

(COMING SOON) BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS 5: GHOST OF A CHANCE

This website and its contents, which were proudly created entirely without the use of AI, are dedicated to those who were with me every step of the way.