At a glance:
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1985
- Setting: New Mexico
- Characters: McRae, Belle Starr
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Abused persons, Murder or homicide, Mental illness, Violence, Southwest, Guns, 1980's
- Locales: United States, New Mexico, North America
The Story
McRae, a twenty-three-year-old loner, is driving a beat-up Dodge Charger across Texas with a vague notion of starting over his failed life, hoping that in the West people will not require as much from a person, because there is so much room. He is soon proven wrong—much will be required of him, primarily from a hitchhiker he picks up on the way, a young woman holding a paper bag containing a small pistol. The woman calls herself Belle Starr after the female gunslinger from the Old West. McRae is bemused by the strange woman. She is not a talker, but the...
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