man shoots cow, other man shoots first man.

man is from California, in Montana
other man has never met a man from California, considers most of them to be queers.
other man tells this story once in town.
man had no business hunting.
man had only owned a gun for a day or so.
other man patrolled his acres on horseback with a gun for where the barbwire was down.
other man had land, Montana-sized land.
man was fleeing from the west. fleeing his old life and striking out anew.
other man live on an old dirt road.
other man had actually named the road himself. And made sure the post-office knew when the change had been made.
man lost it somewhere, bought a gun, and had intended to kill something.
man was unsure if he was the something that he was going to kill.
man pulled off the Montana rd and walked and walked and walked.
other man said that the man had been crying.
other man had his dad’s old shotgun.
man had never been armed before.
man was probably going to be the one he was going to shoot.
man put the gun to his mouth and decided, after serious consideration, that he should take it out again.
other man, pondering the flatness of the earth, saw man walk out of the treeline, armed.
man saw a deer in the clearing.
other man swears that he took steady aim at one of his cattle.
man vigilantied the cow he thought was a deer.
man gave it the bum’s rush. fired at point blank range.
other man took the events into consideration and then fired a shot himself.
man took his place next to the cow.
other man found out later that man was from San Francisco. Probably a queer.

- posted by Sean Wheeler @ 10:22 PM