Sheep's Clothing (17 page)

             
I gave him a friendly smile, and he took a half-step back.

             
“Now,” I said, shutting the shotgun with a loud
clack
. “I think you owe the nice lady an apology.”

             
He glanced in May’s direction but seemed reluctant to take his eyes off me. “Ya’re… ya’re…”

             
“The town doctor, yes,” I said amiably. “Now, apologize to her for scaring the daylights out of her, or you and I are going to have some problems, understood?”

             
He stuttered an apology to May and ran out so fast you would have thought the seat of his pants had caught fire.

             
I handed the shotgun to May, who nodded and placed it behind the counter.

             
“Thanks for that, Doc,” she said.

             
“Not a problem,” I said, and then glanced after the man’s fleeing form. “Remind me to ask you sometime what sort of rumors have been flying about me.”

             
She laughed. “Maybe when ya got a couple hours to kill.”

             
Being a legend did seem to have its merits.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

             
Special thanks to Gaye Stovall, who patiently answered all my questions regarding this historical period, to Michael Miller and Cynthia Bowling, my beta readers, and to Julia Gibbs, my proofreader. I don’t think I could have finished this novel without your help.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Elizabeth Einspanier is an author of cross-genre fiction who especially enjoys the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres.
While she has spent her life in St. Louis, MO, Elizabeth frequently spends time in universes of her own creation, doing things with genres and story tropes that her college adviser never intended. Her short fiction has been seen in magazines like
Down in the Dirt
and
Dark Fire Fiction
, and she has been a member of the St. Louis Writer’s Guild since November 2012.
Sheep’s Clothing
is her first Weird Western.

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