Magic Gun: A Western Duo Audiobook (Free)

Hugh Collier in “The Danger Fan” feels he’s living a clear life as a little more than experienced bank worker in the city of Stanton. He chooses to keep behind a lifestyle that for him was a “caricature and savage cartoon of the beautiful truth that life could be,” and he mind in to the mountains by itself, carrying only the essentials on his equine. Even though his efforts at hunting and fishing end up being failures in the first days, he helps to keep his spirits up by celebrating his small successes as he about Magic Weapon: A Traditional western Duo moves deeper in the open. Two things change the course of his experience: he sees a town from a hill, and a stranger, desperate to file on a state, convinces Collier to trade horses. Once he walks the stranger’s horse into the town, he soon discovers himself to become mistaken for the outlaw Costs Gadsden by both worshipers from the outlaw and the person following the outlaw, Lassiter.

In the title story, twenty-two year old Lewis Dikkon has led a sheltered life, operating seven days a week like a shoemaker for his taskmaster uncle, Charles Bender. Being inside more often than not, he knows little of the town and its inhabitants plus they have no curiosity about him, other than as a poorly outfitted oddball. A stranger called Sam Prentiss starts showing up at 8 p.m. every Saturday night to sit in a chair in the shop’s doorway and appearance next door for one hour. Their discussions, though limited, start to create Dikkon’s brain to function and before long he decides he really wants to buy a weapon. When Dan Hodge, the gunman, is certainly killed and his personal items rise for auction, Dikkon gets his Colt, which he is convinced can be a magic weapon.