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B.C. Licht

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The Ballad of Cactus Peat: The Rootinest Outlawn of the Wild West

B.C. Licht

Submitted to Contest #204

The West, as you know it, is dead. No, it ain’t the Winchester repeating rifle that did her in. It ain’t the steel horse locomotive that did it either. Or the airplane, or cars, or any newfangled way of transportating from point A to point B. No, the West died doing what she loved best, watching men tear each other apart, limb from limb until the fiery, green hands of the atomic clock struck high noon. Life took a bit of a siesta to cool her strings in the nuclear winter before playing the next song in this cosmic symphony of souls we call E...

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