Cow_"Justice Prevails"_I Can’t Spend Money I Ain’t Got Yet If I’m Dead_Wild Things
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Cow
I looked up the menu before leaving. I knew which combination plate I wanted and I knew how the waiter was going to feel serving it to me. Momma looked her head in the room and jiggled her eyes at me. I stood up and turned her way and she asked how I felt. I said nervous and grabbed my brush to run through my hair one more time. Because I sighed before I told her "nervous", she sighed before telling me she'd be in the carMomma droppwww.onedoor.cced me off at La Poblanitas and it was his responsibility to bring me home safe. I asked the waitress if there were any tables open instead. She looked me head to t...
"Justice Prevails"
“Justice Prevails” The powerful roar of the crowd was so intense, no one heard the explosion. All eyes were on the ball flying over the center field wall. A rookie short stop clinched the World Series for a team that started the season in last place. As celebrations broke out on and off the field and fireworks filled the sky, a rapidly spreading catastrophe escalated behind-the-scenes. It didn’t take long for an army of state and local police, sheriff’s departments, firefighters, military personnel, FBI officers, EMTs, ambulances and emergency vehicles to surround the ballpark and patrol the...
I Can’t Spend Money I Ain’t Got Yet If I’m Dead
Chugwater, Wyoming 1888The three riders stare silently as Micah Tomlin’s ramshackle home catches fire. “Think anybody’s gonna see the smoke?” Harmon asks.“Nope. You and Jumbo are my closest neighbors. The others hate me too much to care.”“Never get in bed with a lawyer,” Jumbo says. “You tryin’ to be funny, Jumbo?”Pulling his soiled hat down around his grey eyes, twenty-six-year-old Harmon Jones looks away. He won’t miss Micah’s wife, Enid, any more than his cousin will, but their partner, Jackson St. John, treated Harmon square because he worked harder than Micah and Jumbo combined.Jumbo Leak...
Wild Things
Every job has at least one task that separates work from not-work; that task that one wishes could be ignored. For Corinna this was the task she was faced with. Separating people from their animal companions is easy when those people are abusive; but painful when it breaks a heart. There was no sign of abuse here, in fact, given the animal in question it was impossible, but the law is the law.She knocked at the door, taking in its large size. She smoothed her straight silver hair behind her pointed ears, making it frame her coal-black face. When she didn’t hear a response, she tried the bell n...