October, 2020

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Issue #133

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Justice for None
by Darnell Cureton
Blame for hanging a white man without trial fell on Edith Fowler, the colored Mayor of Bleakville. If she doesn't turn herself over to Vasil Huges and his henchmen, the town may burn. Her dream has always been justice for all, but now she fears there will be justice for none.

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Mexican Standoff
by J. D. Ray
A cattle rustler finds himself face-to-face with someone who is unexpected in a number of ways.

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Requiem for a Working Man
by Dick Derham
Two solitary months doing ranch chores leaves a man lonely and thirsting to catch up on all the gossip from town. So, when Brady's best drinking buddy swung by, Brady made him welcome and settled down to enjoy the whiskey and companionship—but gets more than he bargained for.

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Rise of a Gunslinger
by John Layne
Seventeen-year-old J.D. Case's prowess with his new Colt Frontier is put to the test after the slaughter of the family's cows by a greedy railroad boss triggers his father's heart failure. The distraught son sets out to find and punish the men responsible for his father's death.

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Slowly Becoming Sioux
by Gary Ives
Caleb and Molly had barely escaped from Chicago. He was searching for a future and she was only trying to escape from the past. Who knew it would be the Sioux who would show each a path?

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The Snake
by John Jones
There were two things that the trapper hated more than anything else. Snakes and Indians. Now he was helpless and trapped between the two. Which one would get him first?

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