How the Chaparral Got Its New Name

Fiction by Kevin Grauke

When Della Ashwood was in high school, she was so large that Coach Waller tried to get her to suit up and play offensive line for the Dusties. Though that never came to pass, her first job after graduation wasn’t all that far off from protecting quarterbacks and bulldozing paths for running backs. Homer Glaze hired her as a waitress at the Chaparral, but that was…