Lonerider Stories

As I was cleaning out the attic of my grandparents home I came upon an article describing the events leading up to a murder most foul. In 1885 a man was shot while riding his horse to town. There was no mystery as to who committed the crime but little was know of the man who was cut down in his prime. This is his story, which I have dramatized base on the info I gleaned from the article and a few other pieces of info inluded in the file.... *this is a work of fiction loosely based on the song "I hung my head" originally written and performed by sting, but I was familiarized with as performed by Johnny Cash.

Western mystery for the photo prompt short story contest put on by @The_Bookshop. Enjoy :)

You are Grimmel's twin brother but you two aren't identical in both looks and personalities. You always thought he was a gentle man oh how wrong you were. You watched him force the death grippers into obeying him and you felt bad for those poor dragons. You took one of the death grippers under the cover of night after removing the helmet that had the mechanism that controlled them. Will you be able to save the deathgrippers from the clutches of Grimmel?