Writing Prompt

He wasn’t a very good gunslinger

So no one was shocked

His career, quite, early,

Met up with maggots...

The moon was full and bright tonight as he rode on the path towards town. He had been away for nearly 3 months tracking the criminal draped across the back of his horse. Some referred to him as a cowboy, a gunslinger, bounty hunter. He didn’t care about any of that. All he knew was the sheriff would pay him a nice bit of coin for the dead man behind him.

The sherif had originally offered him...

Views from a gunslinger

Mask on, so they don’t see the face of this killer

Look me in my eyes and tell me you ain’t scared that ima pull this trigger

To do you dirty is priceless

I’ll leave this little maggot lifeless

One GLT POW , will have you bow down like you calling me “your highness”

Tension in the air starts to raise the humidity

Starting to think if I’m the victim or the enemy...

In the distant western town

Filled with danger all around

Place you’d visit once or twice

Place you think is filled with lies

There’s a house you should be ware

Of the people living there -

They don’t think of God or Fate

In the way you would expect

In this house of pain and lust

You could never dare to trust

Woman’s love or man’s desire

All are born from sin and fire

In the distant western tow...

How could he

Like the maggot he is

Looking shocked when he discovered

That i knew

That he was the gunslinger that killed my father

The man who was a friend to all

The man who cared for his family and worked his hardest

My father is dead because of him

And now he will pay

He will cry out with sorrow as he realizes that his defeat is coming

The woman who once loved him foolishly will be the reaso...

Raggedy Emmet laid a hand on the stranger’s shoulder, ‘You look new around here, stranger,’ he said, ‘We allow visitors but they must sign the town registry.’ The stranger turned while Raggedy Emmet spoke this line that had been spoken countless times before. Raggedy noticed the good left eye move from the Sheriff badge attached to Raggedy’s breast to his own face. ‘Now I hate to pull you away fro...