I'm such a lousy shot. When all is said
and done that's what it all boiled down to. The showdown at sundown.
Mano y mano. In the fourteen years I've done this not once did I ever
have to use my gun.
“Man, we'll make so much money from
this we'll never have to do it again” Marsh, my partner, said. The
red flag went up. But Marsh is my boy so I went along with it. But as
soon as shit hit the fan Marsh was gone. No, wait. S soon as the
pre-shit presented itself he took off. And there was no fantastic
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid shootout. Just a 78 year old
rent-a-cop with an itchy trigger finger. Too bad he scratched his itch on me and
not Marsh.
Too late to worry about that now. Too
late for everything. I hear Marsh got away. Good for him.
Note: I found this story under my
kitchen sink. I have hundreds of stories I wrote by hand on paper
that I've never typed up and chances are they will stay in the box. I
have boxes of stories, scripts, and drawings that aren't online.
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