All Comments on 'Justice'

wasnt always swift, but it was definite. TK U MLJ LV NV

It really catches the tone of the old West Stories except for the fact that standup fights were supposed to have been very rare. Ambushes were the tonic of the epoch according to scholars.

You are a great story teller. I love your westerns. Keep up the great writing!

As soon as I saw that you were the author of this story I knew that I had to read it, glad I did. It has been a while since you wrote a story, they have all been good. Keep writing, and than you.

As a 7th gen Texan, history buff, and Louis Lamour fan, I have to take time to say Well Done.

Good read though.

We lived in Ft. Stockton for 15 years and three of our four kids were born there. We fished a lot on the Devil's River side of Lake Amistad northwest of Del Rio. The standing joke in Ft. Stockton was that it was in the middle of the best fishing in Texas - 200 miles in any direction. Your accurate geography brought back old memories.

another excellent story thank you for posting and looking forward to more like it

As much as I love your Crusader series {and hope you keep them up} it's set present day and it's been a while since you've ventured back into the old-time western story that you do so well. I liked the story a lot, and hope you sneak more of these into your Lit mix [in amongst the Crusader chapters, of course. ;->]

Thanks, woodmanone, you're certainly one of my favorite Lit writers. At 68, the story part of a "stroke-story" is much more important to me than the stroke part. The absence of the latter in most all of your work is inconsequential in view of your great handling of the stories. Please keep them coming.

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Very,very well written.

We have not forgotten what happened here.

Until you had the Hero spout that Revisionist horseshit about why he fought for the Confederacy. Any man who believed "Politicians halfway across the country didn't have the right to tell the South how to live" COULD NOT believe it was okay to own another human being.That's contradictory. I also don't care for literature that has an Author force-feeding me their Politics. That's the reason I stopped reading folks like Murphy, Cornwall and others

despite my agreeing with Shango about your understanding of the politics producing the Civil War. You just write too authentic a Western to underscore it. The Revolutionary War writers of the Declaration Of Independence and the Constitution understood very clearly the importance of maintaining the Republic over States Rights.

D

Langtry, TX wasn't settled until1882.

Shango is like most democrates; wants to write and read what liberals tell him/her. Just like modern day people are tired of big government trying to run their lives; but there will always be sheep like Shango. Big government do as I say not as I do. If you notice anything one set of people don't like something they do without; if a democrate dislikes something they try to force everyone into the same "law" yet they are the first ones to violate law.

The armies of the Confederacy were not made up of slave owners. Mostly they were men just like Calab - men who didn't want politicians from far away telling them how to live. Anyway, the proximate cause for the war wasn't slavery but the Morrell tax. Slavery became an issue affter Antietam Creek and mostly started as a political ploy by Lincoln to forstall British or French aid to the Confederacy.

He really SHOULD never read what writers of any opposing viewpoint write. The last thing he needs is to be educated out of his narrowminded ignorance. He would never be happy with truth and rational thinking.

Good writing, woodman.

deJay

I was never a fan of westerns until reading your work. Thanks for making me a BIG fan.

I use to read westerns when I was a teenager. This is the first one I have read in a letter long time and enjoyed it.

That was a great story. I really like the novels because you tell good stories that last a long time. your short stories go to fast and are almost, emphasis on almost, not worth the time to read since they take longer to comment on than to read.

Ed Grocott

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Justice is served. Great story, interesting characters and realistic. Can't say much but Wow. Thank you for a great story.

Justice was appropriately portioned out. Now days you end up in jail just for slapping someone who would have done something like that. Today these guys would be living it up in California without a care in the world with all the protection the law would give them. A confession letter like that would be challenged as being contrived and these guys would walk with a smile on their face.

way too much circumstance and "good luck" tracing this band of murderers in wide open spaces. Still an engrossing and enjoyable read - just not up to usual level of believability.

The characters are almost standard Hollywood issue for a programmer Western, but Caleb's motivation is certainly believable. The sheriff who understands the difference between Law and Justice was a nice touch.

My one complaint is that there was no erotic action in the story, any more than there would have been in the 1930s or 1940s oaters that this fits in with so nicely. The name of the site IS Literotica, after all. There were two points where you could have had Caleb take Mary to bed and it would have been organic to the story; I was disappointed you chose not to take advantage of them.

One other comment as regards formatting. When you have a character thinking, either put his thoughts in quotes with an appropriate wording like "he thought" or "he said to himself," something like that; or put his thoughts into italics so it is clear he is thinking now and not speaking. Less confusing for your readers.

is swift....fast....brutal....but not always legal. TK U MLJ LV NV

Rather than rely on others.

On their way back through he should take the sheriff aside and tell about the problem in the telegraph office.

I enjoyed the story, but I think you rushed the ending. A little more detail concerning his rehab and building on the relationship with Mary would have made it better.

It was perfect.

So... Liberals are the ones that force laws down peoples throats... And don't obey ths laws they write... Kinda like that law about all men being created equal... And if you fought on the side of the confederacy... You fought to preserve slavery... Period.. The hypocracy of white america is deplorable... As are their excuses for their continued racism... I quit reading at the same place shango did... And for the same reason... And the fact that some racist right wingers jumped in and defended this... Isn't something to be proud of... Shame cause i was enjoying the story up until that point... Sorry... Won't be reading anymore of your works...

-jaye-

A good story at last have read so much sh*t this was a more refreshing forget the political freaks it was just a story

pretty good writen for a good ol boy that never got west of Gumbo

I'm a sucker for such stories, I admit. Yes, yes, I've read dozens of them but I still like them.

Excellent story! Very western.

Always love reading your westerns. Another 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

You spin great western yarns, hope you write some more! Always fun to read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

JUSTICE WAS SERVED

I do love your writing. Thanks for your story. KUDOS