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Ghost Town

Somewhere out West…

A. Gee in Write Under the Moon · 2024-08-04 15:32 · 53 claps · 0.7 min read paywalled
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Ghost Town

Somewhere out West…

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A tumbleweed meanders, blindly. Sharp, gusty wind its hapless guide. The hanging street signs creak, unkindly. Saloon is empty, dead inside. Town square abandoned, dust and gravel. The gallows, where a judge’s gavel would send a miscreant to hang, or pray, get rescued by his gang, stands lifeless, and devoid of function. What’s law and order to a ghost? Some surely went back to their coast, when the expected railroad junction was moved due west. The town remains. But the relentless desert gains.

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