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Guns of Fire and Satin

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A golden sunset cast over a dusty western town. A horse trots down the road. It stops in front of a saloon. A woman hops off, her long black coat tails flutter over her knee-high boots, her hefty pants tucked into them. She removes her wide-brim black hat to reveal wild, curly auburn hair that blends into the backdrop of the sunset’s golden-orange ambers with reddish undertones. While her dark attire says bounty hunter undertaker, with a feminine touch. She ropes her horse and looks up at the freshly painted sign: “Wyatt Saloon”. A grin crawls across her face. -+-+- Inside the saloon, drunken men gaze at the bartender: rosy-cheeks, silky skin, curly brown hair in a loose updo. Hand gestures like snow white delicate strokes almost as if dancing in graceful movements. like she belongs in a princess story not a western town, certainly not as a bartender serving rumbunctious surly men. Lilianna. “C’mon honey! Only for a little while! Sing for me!” a man slurs and prods at her. Suddenly eve...

The Desert For Breakfast

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A precocious girl accompanies a zany alchemist for an eccentric breakfast in the desert.

Breath of The Wild isn’t Zelda

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Breath of The Wild isn’t Zelda 2017 retro reaction Appreciated the changes to gameplay, not the changes to Zelda

Rot of Bad Apple

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  Death trap of Cultural Corruption

The Wedding Orator

Anton Checkhov was a Russian writer who is notable for the principle “One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.” popularly called Checkhov’s Gun (Burn Notice creator Matt Nix produced a hilarious, meta-referential short film in his earlier days titled Chekhov’s Gun) He was very prolific and among his many works are a number of awesome short stories. My favorite that I came across is a short called The Orator. I wrote this short inspired by The Orator.

Neon Bachelorettes

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“I still get the $3,000 you owe me, right?”