1.06: The Coyote of the Painted Plains

They warned her about the bandits, but Mary Anne didn’t listen. She was engaged, she said; her fiancée was moving to Crossroads, and even if Crossroads was crawling with bandits, she didn’t have much of a choice. Sheriff Beau Richmond asked her to marry him; Mary Anne said yes; and that, as far as Mary Anne knew, was the end of it.

It might have been the end to Mary Anne’s entire story, too – decades married to a man whom she liked well enough, she guessed, stop asking, please – if the bandit hadn’t stopped the train.

Chance Sequoyah is a very special bandit. Sure, she’ll take the usual things: money, necklaces, watches. But she plans on taking something else, too: Mary Anne Watkins.

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Attribution:

Music:

"Kind of Girl" by Jeris, featuring spinningmerkaba: http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657

Sound Effects:

“Horse Snort 2.wav” by GoodListener: http://freesound.org/people/GoodListener/sounds/322454
“Jump, landing in snow02” by mallement: http://freesound.org/people/mallement/sounds/16064
“Horse Whinny 1.wav” by GoodListener: http://freesound.org/people/GoodListener/sounds/322445
“horse.mp3” by rvinyard: http://freesound.org/people/rvinyard/sounds/117252
“Caball Esbufega + Llepa.wav” by Crater RF: http://freesound.org/people/Crater%RF/sounds/189739
“Amb Hipica + Renill.wav” by Crater RF: http://freesound.org/people/Crater%RF/sounds/189282
“Chair Falling.wav” by bmcken: http://freesound.org/people/bmcken/sounds/118181
“sh_Woman_Running_Carpet_to_Hard_Floor.wav” by shall555: http://freesound.org/people/shall555/sounds/140227
“OWI sfx library>>32.getting into bed.wav” by btherad2000
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“good kick in the head sound.aif” by mwl500
http://freesound.org/people/mwl500/sounds/54807

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TRIGGER WARNINGS:

• Death and violence
• Guns
• Kidnapping
• Sudden loud noises
• Racism

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