Greg Gannaway

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“The Sad Saga of Hootie Hannigan” by Greg Gannaway

Submitted to Contest #271

THE SAD SAGA OF HOOTIE HANNIGANBy Greg Gannaway The year was 1876, the same year Jack McCall, better known as Crooked Nose Jack, shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back of the head and killed him. Hootie Hannigan was sitting in a saloon in a little starved-out south Texas town, dressed in his usual odd assortment of patched clothes, having a plate of rewarmed beans with hog belly and drinking whiskey. He had arrived in the hottest part of the day, the sun high overhead, arched a little past noon. Inside the saloon the air was dim and still, slan...

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