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    Will Branch
    Will Branch
    Will Branch
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    Will Branch

    By M.L. Bushman

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    Eli lay on that couch, eyes closed, thick black hair matted to his head. Face flushed like it was, I slipped my hand over the back of the couch to feel of his forehead and his fast horse almost got a piece of my sleeve.
    Shot to my full height then, waving both arms. "Get out of here, damn you. Go on."

    Kept waving, warning, trying to back that horse off some, and Eli opened his eyes.

    "Cricket, you damn fool," he snapped and slapped his right hip.

    Shot the ceiling, horse was out the door. Brought his revolver to his chest, folded his left arm over and said, "Listen, friend, if you mean to kill me with that Colt, roll your dice."

    I liked him instantly.

    "If I meant to, I'd be done already," I said.

    His eyes closed.

    "Abe Stone's son," I said. "Aren't you?"

    Mumbled something I didn't catch.

    "Do you know One Who Knows?"

    Sounded dumb as hell when I heard myself say it, but like I said, that's never stopped me before.

    Nothing out of Eli. A hand to his forehead, he was frying.

    That's how I met Eli Stone face-to-face. He didn't actually meet me for a few days though.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJigsaw Press
    Release dateJan 8, 2017
    ISBN9781934340127
    Will Branch
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    M.L. Bushman

    A single mom, Ms. Bushman divides her time between her child, her horse, three cats and writing/editing for Jigsaw Press, not necessarily in that order. She is a novelist, a former newspaper reporter, a blogger, and a rabid patriot, again, not necessarily in that order. At present, Ms. Bushman is working on the Two Bit Western series Eli Stone. She and her small herd make their home just outside the tiny historical town of Sun River, Montana.

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      Will Branch - M.L. Bushman

      Two-Bit Westerns presents...

      Eli Stone #10

      Will Branch

      by

      M.L. Bushman

      Will Branch© copyright 2017 by M.L. Bushman

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted by any means—including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, audio or video—without express written consent by the copyright owner, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination and/or used fictitiously. Any similarities to actual events, locales, or persons living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      ISBN: 9781934340127

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      God's definition of Equality:

      the equal-opportunity extinction.

      Let me start by saying you really do wonder--why you? By all rights, by all you consider proper or Holy, you should be dead, like the other billions gone in the proverbial wink of a Geological eye.

      So, there's that.

      I still don't know why me, but neither does anybody else. Just how the Math rolled.

      Eli's been saying there ain't no coincidences for years.

      Can't be coincidence if it's Math.

      I was seventeen years old at the time. Two years older than my good horse, Bubba. Three years younger than Eli. As I'm writing this down, it's been at least eleven years, maybe longer. Nobody else knows for sure either.

      There's no way to name an exact day of a week of a month that God kicked our collective little asses back to the 19th century. No one knows what day is what anymore. We count moons, not months. We live by seasons now, like every other species left on the planet.

      End of Summer is the best I can do; right after Lex Talionis assassinated Abe Stone and Bob Numbers leaving only one candidate for President of any consequence to the globalist elite--the incumbent, his dictator father.

      Eli and Tom were still fighting for the bodies when I left home before dawn.

      Was my dad that up and talked me into one last ride. He said make it short, but go on and take it. Shit's gonna get ugly real quick and stay ugly for an extended period of time. Right after the funerals; that the Feds were just holding the bodies to buy themselves the time to martial their pussy UN forces.

      The only legacy left to them was their evil for all to see.

      Anyway, my dad mentioned more than once that summer that he didn't feel so easy in his skin. I didn't know what he meant, not then, and maybe he didn't either. But I know now.

      Hone those animal instincts. What if you need 'em?

      Nothing I loved

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