I’m a day late but I’m still way behind in my posts and life right now.
One of the cool things about short stories is that I can try out genres that I don’t normally read and not have a long book to do it with. Such is the case of Trail of the Lonesome Stickpin.
Mick and Casey McKee are a not your normal married couple from the Wild West. They are gunslingers, in this story, hire to protect a valuable stickpin.
When Mick took his break to go get something to eat, he got more than he bargained for when an older lady asked him for assistance in the new shop she and her daughter were setting up. He was offered coffee for his trouble and next thing he knew was he woke up on the floor of the shop only half dressed, with the pie he bought, next to him. All he could remember was soft blonde hair, not the color of Casey’s.
Soon after he woke, Casey and Deputy Tilly walked in. It looked pretty suspicious and Deputy Tilly assumed the worst in Mick. Meanwhile the stickpin went missing again. As Mick remembers what happens little by little the couple pieced together what happened.
This was a fun story with humor mixed in. Not the serious type of story that I would usually pick but I enjoyed it as a change of pace. Would I seek out a novel length story like this, well no. Not unless I was in need of some real cotton candy. I would however, read more shorts like this. You can read the story here.
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