Some of those teeth flew out of his mouth as he laughed hysterically, and several of the barmaids scurried to pick them up. Outside, the covered boardwalk extended around the building. It s easy. I looked back at the saloon I had just left. Everyone winds up there when they get here.
Some folks never leave.
So far you re doing good. I thanked her and walked into the street where misshapen birds silently scraped their twisted blackened beaks on the dead gray earth under a large welcome banner strung from one side of the street to the other. On the balcony above, I noticed the name of the saloon. I stepped aside as a headless driver dementedly raced a stagecoach, pulled by skeleton horses, up the street, and I coughed in the cloud of dust that welled behind it. I felt something tear then, and I caught my jaw and a few rubbery strands of connective tissue as it pulled free of my face.