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Weekly Contest #263
Mateusz sat down heavily in the gray and slosh of late winter under an oak tree. The marrow of his bones curdled; he was tired with a tired that could no longer tell time or season. He was tired of fighting and noise and death. He had stopped counting long ago the number of friends he had lost. He sat next to Josef, a jeweler’s son from Spandau, and Bruno, who had a fat face and wore a bandolier. Bruno’s hands weren’t greasy, but they looked like they should’ve been. Josef had only joined Die Piraten last year and m...
Weekly Contest #221
In Agua Fria, Arizona, a meeting was being held. It was being held in Lucky’s Tavern, a rough-and-tumble joint known to cause fights that concluded in stand-offs that concluded in shootings that concluded in death(s). Many of the men in this meeting were famous: John ‘Tex’ McGraw, who had met Geronimo; Lucius Goodfellow, who had helped hunt down Billy the Kid; Benjamin ‘Golden Bullet’ (or ‘Goldy’) Alabaster, war hero of Second Bull Run; and even Aldous Jung, who had fought at the Alamo. The oldest member, though not present, was John Fitzsim...
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