Roughshod

By Dale Chase

Nineteen-year-old budding gunslinger Ben Wylie sparks the interest of Cal Decker, the real thing, when the older man keeps the younger from a needless killing. Smitten, Cal attempts to reel in the hotheaded Ben, only to be drawn into such an extent he assists the kid in escaping after a shooting. Even as Cal sees Ben as the worst kind of killer, the kind looking for more, he cannot resist Ben’s youthful attributes. Cal uses his years of experience to outwit the law, but can these men have a life together on the run? Cal is willing to try.

NOTE: This story appears in the anthology, Cowboy Roundup edited by Drew Hunt, available in e-book and print formats.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Oct 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781611528732

Dale Chase

Dale Chase started out writing fiction for motorcycle magazines, then wandered into gay erotica over a decade ago and found a home. Since then she has had nearly 150 stories published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including translation into Italian and German. Her sole literary effort was published in the Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly and her only non-fiction, Straight Pen For Gay Men, appeared in the Gay & Lesbian Review. Her next story collection, The Company He Keeps: Victorian Gentlemen’s Erotica, is due from Bold Strokes Books in 2011. Dale is also a lifelong artist.

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Roughshod

By Dale Chase

NOTE: This story is also in the anthology, Cowboy Roundup, edited by Drew Hunt and available in e-book and print.

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Copyright 2015 Dale Chase

ISBN 9781611528732

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Roughshod

By Dale Chase

I was doing well at poker in Tombstone’s Oriental Saloon when the young fellow sitting to my right started going on about the dealer cheating. It annoyed me that I couldn’t assure him he was mistaken because doing so would reveal my fine array of cards. I hoped he’d quiet down so I could claim the pot, but this was not to be. Damned if he didn’t keep on ranting at the dealer, gaining in volume as he heated up. When he jumped up and drew his pistol, I jumped up too and knocked it away. This sent him reeling for a second before he sprang at me, fists flying. I put an end to this with a serious gut punch, then turned to the game and laid out my hand. When I’d scooped up the money, I bowed out and saw to the kid on the floor.

He was dazed, but took the offered hand and let me pull him to his feet. I located his weapon, but didn’t give it back to him. Into my belt it went. And outside we went.

You’d have killed that man, I said once we were out front of the saloon.

He deserved it, replied the kid who couldn’t have been even twenty. He was cheating.

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