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Saturday Morning Cinema: The Wild Bunch
The “Wild West” of American history had to expire at some point. Territorial expansion and growth of government authority, coupled with advancing technology, rang the death knell for an era of lawlessness and frontierism. The Wild Bunch focuses on a point during that time where the United States was still establishing its southern and western…
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500 Words: The Man’s Challenger
Continued from The Man Makes a Stand… Smoke curled from the operative’s rifle barrel as if blowing a kiss to its quarry. The corner of her mouth curled into a slight smile as she watched her target drop and leave only a pink mist in his wake. Her surroundings blinked once and went black as…
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500 Words: The Man Makes a Stand
Shots rang out in their wake, and bullets whistled a sonic symphony as they zipped by, embedding themselves in whatever interrupted their path. The man pushed his quarry forward, but captivity had sapped the elder man’s strength and senses. “You have a gun too, don’t you,” the older man asked, his question soaked in rhetorical…
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500 Words: The Man’s Return
The train barreled into the station bringing with it a barrage of desert detritus. Those waiting at the stop shielded their faces with whatever filter was readily available. While the masses looked away and waited for the storm of dirt to settle, one man pushed through, his head tilted down to let the wide-brimmed hat…
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