Pretty Polly

By Duane Spurlock

When a vicious outlaw, Griswold Bear, known as Grizzly (or Grisly, depending on who's talking) Bear, arrives at the western frontier town of Wicket, he plans to terrorize the citizens into doing his bidding. His plans for doing his bidding mean filling his saddlebags with money and whiskey. But his plans take a sharp turn when Bear meets the lawman of Wicket, Sheriff Shoat. The sheriff has a few plans of his own. And he offers a deal to the bad man that sounds too good to be true.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Duane Spurlock
• Release date: Oct 27, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301011476

Duane Spurlock

Duane Spurlock is a writer, editor, and illustrator. He has worked in publishing -- both print- and Internet-based -- his entire career. A former Director of Content for Web-based newsletter publisher Emazing.com, he now works in communications in the health care field. A book he illustrated -- The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories, by Brian J. Showers -- won the 2008 Children of the Night Award from the international Dracula Society. (Duane says, "The glory all goes to Brian. I was in the right place at the right time.") He has written a number of short stories and novellas. He lives with his family in Kentucky, where they garden, tell stories, and occasionally whistle.

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Pretty Polly

A Sheriff Shoat Western Story

By Duane Spurlock

Pretty Polly

Copyright 2007 Duane Spurlock

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

An Interview with Duane Spurlock

Other Books by Duane Spurlock

Other Westerns You May Enjoy

Pretty Polly

CHAPTER ONE

Oh, Lord, Mr. Bear, please don’t kill me!

The man pleading for his life hung upside down, tied at his ankles with his own rope, which was thrown over a tree limb and hitched to the saddle horn of his horse.

The man he addressed—the man who’d strung him up in this manner—stood with his revolver drawn. He said, You think I might kill you?

Oh, yes sir, but I beg you don’t.

You know who I am?

"Oh, Lord, yes sir, you’re Grizzly Bear, a terrible