Notes - **Mature readers only, brief mention of SA **- I’m trying to write with _Blood Meridian_ prose - darkness, briefness, lack of commas and lack of good sense.

**Somewhere in the Wild West…**

There is a boy whose face is soft and slender like the face of a lamb, and whose eyes are dead. His name is Frank Calhoun and he drives a small horse-drawn wagon. He seems ordinary to most. They call ...