‘The Cowboy’ is a new story published by Sensitive Skin Magazine, and the publication is accompanied by a reading by the author. There’s an element of homage to Ed Dorn’s Gunslinger in the writing.
“Here came a cowboy with sun-saddled skin. He had killed but once, but had killed simply, in Santa Fe where the turquoise tells. The cowboy was young with a jackrabbit’s poise, a buck-toothed boy, spring-heeled and dun. It was spring when we met in the rain, in Buffalo Gap, where the shaggy herds churned like plowed soil, and trampled and tore through the tented town…” Read this whole story at Sensitive Skin.