RL and other stories is a collection of stories and narratives of plane everyday working people engaged in commonplace actions like roping wayward calves and hauling square bales of hay down the road to turn over a few bucks and loading 200 lb 10-ft long cedar logs onto semi trailers and standing tall for family honor and living in canvas tents and shacks out in the cedar breaks and depending unruly bulls and having cold flood water wash into the truck cab at a creek crossing and facing financial hard times and suffering terrific injuries out in the middle of nowhere and so much more