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  https://youtu.be/9U-YNKUriMY?si=O7elmpqF10QayPUG This brand new western short, just for you: The sun bled out across the horizon, painting the underside of the clouds in bruised purples and reds. Jedediah tasted dust, a fine grit that coated his teeth and the back of his throat. His horse, a weary roan named Cinder, plodded on, its head low. They were looking for one stupid calf, a ghost-white speck against the dun-colored landscape, that had bolted from the herd hours ago. He found it cornered in an alkali basin, its frightened bleats echoing off a rock formation that looked like a stack of crumbling skulls. It wasn't alone. A wolf, gray and gaunt as a rail, was slinking in a low semi-circle, its belly nearly scraping the cracked earth. The wolf was all sinew and bone, a creature whittled down to pure, starving purpose. Jedediah didn’t reach for the Colt on his hip. A bullet was a dollar and the wolf wasn't worth it. He spurred Cinder forward, letting o...