1) All of the men that entered that house inevitably left it slightly less manly.
2) The drifter appeared at the edge of town at exactly 2:15pm. After stopping in on Sam's General Store to re-up his supply of chewing tobacco, he further made his presence known by sending two bullets into the chest of Bart Baker, the bank manager. Under the fiery gaze of his split barrel shotgun, Mae Ann Clemens, the bank president's daughter, promptly handed him $6, 256 dollars in silver and gold coin. He did not wait for Pearl Landreau's diamonds, which Mae Ann offered under her duress.
3) Jesslynn was a girl who had never believed in fairies. Or Santa. Or genies. Or happy endings. At 13 she had already seen too much of the real world to pretend anything good or beautiful or lucky lay beyond the cesspool that was her life.
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