American Sentence C
The day Cowboy was to hang, bargained hard for what was left in his soul.
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The day Cowboy was to hang, bargained hard for what was left in his soul.
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Definitely makes you wonder what he was sentenced for… and whether he may have been innocent of it, or as guilty as he seems to think he is.
Glad for these wonderings.. Yep, Cowboy be a complex man
Or maybe “justifiable homicide?” Was he preventing a violent crime himself? So many avenues are possible. Thank you for sharing this, Pam!
You write one sentence and it sparks a whole scene in my imagination!
Thank you, Jeremy! Encouragment for me to stay on the train!
Love this
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So good!
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I’m glad we get to see more of his story (if it’s the same cowboy from earlier)
Yep, it is the same Cowboy. I’ve been down with a bug, better today. I call this one a fever gift!
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An appropriate stunner for number 100!
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You’ve moved the story forward a LOT here! Sets up a whole world of revelations!
Grateful for this opening. Helps…
This cowboy is such a character! Wonder what else we’ll learn about him as the month goes on
And me as well, N.D.! Thanks for riding the train!
Revelations and wonders abound in the continuing saga of Cowboy. Thanks for this many-layered gift, Pam
Welcome, L.Sipe! Thanks for reading and commenting.
Dark, sad, and thought-provoking. What would I do if they were about to put a rope around my neck? Seems like a lot of your sentences this year are about Cowboy. Is there a backstory?
Cowboy carries the heat of train, doesn’t he?
No particular backstory but your question got me to thinking…
Cowboy came to me when I watched (in imagination) folks boarding this train going somewhere. Words sang to me…red hair, 12-string on his back tapping ragtime.
A beginning answer to your question is he carries my love of cowboys from watching westerns as a kid with my boy cousins, who hold some of Cowboy’s characteristics (red hair, guitar, and rugged individualism) and as seen and heard in the Highwaymen (Cash, Jennings, Kristopherson, Nelson) and how all mentioned showed in song and life the struggles with dark and light, and mistakes and redemption,
I just read back through them all to make sure I had this right.
So much suspense you’re creating with these once a day…I think I already said that. But I’m L. Coyne in wondering what Cowboy’s past is.
I am discovering and squeezing into 17 syllables, Cowboy’s past and present as a write An American Sentence each day.
I hope you and everyone else knows how much I appreciate your comments, questions, and affirmations! Keeps me seated on the train to see this story through…even when I have nothing…nothing…as the deadline to submit comes close. Ever grateful when those 17 syllables sing for me and y’al!
cowboy bargained hard! such tension!
Thanks for seeing that tension, Linda!
A short sentence holds so many questions. Great intrigue as if I know him.
Thanks, Virginia!
The line “what was left in his soul” holds such an ache. Well written!
Thank you, Katrina!
I’m sorry that Cowboy was hanged, I was riding hard to catch him on that ride off into the sunset…
Oh Rudy….Cowboy is alive….he WAS to be hanged but he here is on the train. Might get that ride with him after all!