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                         By Howard Waldrop
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                                                                       begins to cough and choke.
                         29 January 2001
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                                                                       Locked Doors
                         It was the time of the Sun Dance and the
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                         Big Tractor Pull. Freddy-in-the-Hollow and by Stephanie Burgis
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                         We were almost late, what with the
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                         sandstorm and the raid on the white           You can never let anyone
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                         We pulled in with our wrecker and string of That was the first rule she
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                         fine cars, many of them newly-stolen. You taught him, and the last,
                                                                     before she left him here alone
           Guidelines    should have seen Freddy and me that
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                         morning, the first morning of the Sun Dance.with It.
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                    We were dressed in new-stolen fatigues
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                    pistols. Freddy had a new carbine, too. We
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                    were wearing our silver and feathers and 18 December 2006
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                    watching us as we drove in. There seemed Pale as he was, it was hard to
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                    to be many more here than the last Sun
                                                                from this bed. Even in the
                    Ceremony. It looked to be a good time.
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                    The usual crowd gathered before we could really feared for him; he had
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                    circle up our remuda. I saw Bob One-Eye always been strong, so
                    and Nathan Big Gimp, the mechanics, come strong.
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                    across from their circles. Already the cook
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                    skinning out the cattle that had been
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                    "Hoo!" I heard Nathan call as he limped to 11 December 2006
                    our wrecker. He was old; his left leg had Nilufer raised her eyes to his.
                    been shattered in the Highway wars, he      It was not what women did
                    went back that far. He put his hands on his to men, but she was a
                    hip and looked over our line.               princess, and he was only a
                         "I know that car, Billy-Bob Chevrolet," he bandit. "I want to be a
                                                                      Witch," she said. "A Witch
                         said to me, pointing to an old Mercury.
                         "Those son-a bitch Dallas people stole it and not a Queen. I wish to be
                         from me last year. I know its plates. It is not loved, but wise. Tell your
                         good you stole it back. Maybe I will talk to bandit lord, if he can give me
                                                                      that, I might accept his gift."
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                         "We'll have to drink about it," I said.

                         "Let's stake them out," said
                         Freddy-in-the-Hollow. "I'm tired of pulling
                         them."