High Stakes Train, Part Two

As they settled into the chairs, a prick stung Jackson’s thigh. He bounced up. “Ow!” Garvey examined his hindquarters. “Poison?” Jackson plucked needles from the seats. “What’s your game?” “There’s always a game.” Dale slapped a card deck onto the table. “This one’s for your life. Without the antidote, you die…

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High Stakes Train, Part One

Marshal Jackson shifted his musty Stetson over his eyes for a quick nap. As the train’s rhythm culled him toward sleep, a bony poke jolted his shoulder. "You wanted to see me, Marshal?”  Garvey’s eye whites gleamed in his sooty face. Jackson adjusted his hat. “Some coincidence you’re a fire man…

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