It Was Supposed To Be Simple

Chairs Quit All at Once
It Was Supposed To Be Simple — Book 1
All they had to do… was set up the chairs.

That was the plan. Simple. Straightforward. No moving parts, no complicated steps, no reason for anything to go wrong. A few rows, a quick check, and the town event would be ready to go.

And for a while, it looked like it worked.

The chairs were...

The Shed Door Trapped Us Outside
A It Was Supposed to Be Simple Novel — Book Two

It worked earlier.
That was all the proof anyone needed.

The shed door had always been a little off, so when it finally closed clean and opened once without sticking, the problem was considered solved. No one measured anything. No one tested it twice. It lined up, it...

Bandit Took the Only Thing That Mattered
BOOK THREE

A purse goes missing at a perfectly normal community picnic.

That should be simple. Ha! It isn’t.

Because the moment Denise’s purse disappears, something far more dangerous takes over—people start trying to help.

At first, it’s manageable. Someone moves something. Someone explains something. Someone...

They said it would be simple.
Walk the line. Set the posts. Stretch the wire. Done.
That was the plan.

What actually happened was a slow, stubborn unraveling of common sense, where soft ground got ignored, trucks got stuck, a tractor made everything worse, and a perfectly reasonable fence somehow turned into something that looked straight… if you...

A simple plan.
A wide open space.
A trailer that absolutely refuses to cooperate.

Welcome back to Nothere, Idaho—where confidence shows up early, instructions arrive late, and every solution somehow makes things worse.

All it takes is one routine task: back a trailer into place. It looks easy from a distance. It looks even easier when several people...

In The Generator Died Right On Cue, the sixth laugh-out-loud installment in the wildly escalating It Was Supposed To Be Simple comedy series, a routine community event is seconds away from success when someone decides the generator could “run even better” with a few minor adjustments. That decision lasts approximately three minutes before the...

Truck & Trailer Flat All At Once
A Laugh-Out-Loud Small Town Disaster Comedy
A flat tire should have taken fifteen minutes.

Maybe twenty if somebody misplaced the lug wrench.

Instead, one low trailer tire beside a rural Idaho road turns into a rolling mechanical disaster involving sinking jacks, shifting weight, missing lug nuts, smoke that...

Book 8 — The Cooler Emptied Before We Started
Series: It Was Supposed To Be Simple
Somewhere between loading the trucks, organizing the food, and arguing over who forgot the mustard, the entire day quietly slipped beyond recovery.

Nobody noticed it immediately. That was the problem.

What was supposed to be a simple lakeside outing turns into a...

A luxury fifth wheel.
A fishing boat.
Eight adults.
Twelve tackle boxes.
Too many coolers.
Absolutely no organization.

What could possibly go wrong?

Jack Johnson proudly rolls into town with his brand-new 1-Ton Black Ram diesel dually Pick-Up Truck, Pulling a massive luxury fifth wheel that cost more than some houses. Brody Bacon arrives with a...

The Shortcut Got Complicated is the explosive final installment in the It Was Supposed To Be Simple comedy series, where confident people continue solving completely different problems the exact same wrong way.

What begins as a simple shortcut quickly transforms into a rolling collapse involving overloaded vehicles, impossible coordination,...