

Griff Bonnell’s lament-filled plea to Brockie’s iron-fisted rich rancher sister Jessica A boy who do a thing like that is dead, or nearly dead, but there’s still time.’ He put Charlie Savage’s corpse on public display in a store window. I didn’t come here to talk about that, I came to talk about Brockie.

You can’t ask after you kill, it’s too late then.

Am I talking too much? In my heart I’ve always asked forgiveness before I kill just like an Indian asking for forgiveness from an animal before the slaughter. You know why I hate to get into fights? I can’t miss.

Did you ever see a dead boy’s eyes in the sky? Threw his gun in the west. I could have made a crippling shot but I didn’t. He was no good like your brother but he was still a boy and I killed him. ‘Last time I killed a man was 10 years ago, a boy. By Douglas Buck Volume 24, Issue 1 / January 2020 8 minutes (1899 words)
