The last customer had barely cleared the threshold with five dollars’ worth of Minty Denta-Bones when Alan Dinkle, Noah’s Arf store manager, thumbed the neon window sign to read “Closed,” locked the doors, and turned to face me. “You know as well as I do that something is wrong, Mindy. Mrs. Schmeckpepper would never forget […]
Free Western Story: Hester’s Vanity
In Atlas Sam’s tent saloon outside Camp Stambaugh, Herman told his friends about the wife. “I swear it happened almost overnight, her puttin’ up these picture frames all over the place—over the sink, over the fireplace, two or three on the bedroom wall.” Herman never saw so many picture frames in his life, and he […]
