SLIM PICKENS is a light hearted romance. Mary-Beth Dearing, career woman, was raised by her widowed grandfather who thought the only two extracurricular activities worth pursuit, was golf and chess. Golf because it was good exercise and one could take ones frustrations out on a little white ball. And chess because it exercised one’s mind. Mary-Beth’s grandfather, Jake, at his passing left her with one last chess game. The board was preset there was no realistic way she could win. Unless she cheated. The game; Matrimony or Nothing. The quest; find a husband within sixty days. The spirit of the quest; a husband to take care of her and complete her. The letter of the quest a husband for two years. To win, Mary-Beth would have to foil the spirit of the quest. Thus turning a lose/win to a win/win. She thought to take out an advertisement that read; White female looking for a husband for lease. Two year lease required. In her quest to foil, Mary-Beth found several potential lessor, a rich man, a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, a doctor, a lawyer, an Indian chief, a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker. Not that these where all bad apples, it just seam that if they weren’t wormy they were sour or overripe. Whatever! For Mary-Beth it was Slim Pickens.
