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"Whiskey and gentle ways did not go together for me. Time was I would wrap myself around a bottle of who-shot-john now and again and it brought me all sorts of grief. Not to mention the grief it brought to folks who happened across my path." Learning Gentle Ways "All you got, all that ever amounts to a tinker's damn in your life, is your good name. Lose that, you got nothin'." A Good Name "I finally figured out that saloons and brothels lure outlaws just like magnets drag iron filings. Resisting the pull just ain't something they can do." Bounty Hunter "When a tadpole starts to grow legs to become a frog it can't never be a tadpole again, but it don't know what it means to be a frog." Tadpole "If you take down the bad guys, aren't you one of the good guys?" Recompense "Time to drive to the cemetery in a long procession with headlights on, with cops blocking the intersections for us to pass." Old Bill "Leavenworth is where they send the really bad guys to keep them separated from the merely bad guys in other federal prisons." Just a Message Lots more - 20 stories, over 51k words of short fiction. Rollicking good fun for short fiction lovers with an eclectic appetite. Five adventures in the Western genre tradition. Seven explorations of Crime & Punishment. Eight probes into Science Fiction. Something for everyone and an opportunity to break your customary reading template.