Stories tagged “gunfight”
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Kuiper Cowboy: Attack!
Tycho keyed the final sequence of pulse beams needed to send the comet into orbit around Iapetus. Thankfully the hard part was over and all that was really left to do was collect his paycheck. Tycho and the boys finished the pulse sequence and headed b...
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Thousand-Yard Stares Only Get You So Far
The two men stood, back to sweaty back, under the Spaghetti Western sun. Thousand-yard stares leaped out of their eyeballs and ran off into the horizon. “Today,” cried the mayor, "these two men have challenged each other to a duel to t...
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Aces & Eights
Bill stepped out of Nuttal & Mann’s saloon and looked both ways down the street. The camp looked abandoned. Camp, who was he kidding? Deadwood had become a town. There was movement to his right, but it was just some townies trying to get a be...
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Calamity and Colorado
As the last puff of life drifted from the hunk of metal that had been a Firebeetle Automaton mark IV, William “Wild Bill” Hickok holstered the ColtCo pistol and nodded at the wreckage. “It’ll take more than a giant fire-breathin...
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Lefty's Last Stand
Lefty had always been the quiet one. He never complained when it came time for him to ride drag. He never said a word when Cookie served beans and fatback for supper 40 days in a row. Come rain, shine, dust, or mud, Lefty just took it all in stride. A ...
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The End part 1
Luke sat down amongst the newly dead and leaned back against the crumbling stone wall, its bullet scars a testament to the recent battle. Bits of grimy plaster rained down on him as he looked up at the puffy white clouds that swam slowly across the bri...
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The End part 2
He pulled a rumpled pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket and bit one out, realizing too late that he didn’t have a lighter anymore. He willed his sore limbs into motion and pushed himself up off the floor, and looking down at his seat Luke ...
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The End Part 3
He was looking paler and paler as more sweat poured from him to wash away the old, staining clothes that felt heavier and heavier on his body as the minutes passed by. The footsteps were getting louder now and Luke knew that they must be close. Then t...
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The End Part 4
The five men took a step back on instinct, but soon recovered and raised their rifles to take aim. He raised his pistol, which in truth wasn’t his having taken it from one of the recently dead, and looked down the sights of the dead man’s g...