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Join @CRLiterature in reporting on some of our favorite fictional unknowns by writing fun fan fictions based on popular films and television shows 📽️📺 Ponder pop culture’s most perplexing puzzles as we prompt you to provide fans with a satisfying conclusion to cliffhangers and open-ended mysteries in 250 words or less 🧑💻🤩 Get inspired to write about worlds you know and love & you might just pick up some rewards along the way 🏅🏆
The closest thing to a mythical character we might find in the New World, from the high plains of Canada through the heartland of U.S.A. and all the way to the fields of Argentina, is the Cowboy or Gaucho. These trailblazing figures were a towering presence in the Old West and left an indelible mark upon western society, both good and bad. So in honor of the "boys that would be next to the cow" I chose The Storyteller, a character in the film Posse from 1993, portrayed by Woody Strode plus Jeffrey Lloyd Lane.
More information on Cowboys is below. Your task is to add to the fireside chats and bar room tales of the Storyteller. One of many cowboy legends throughout the USA, to the plains of Uruguay and Argentina, in the realms of Mexico or Colombia. In a comment below in 250 words or less, in your own words and without the assistance of AI or similar machine learning tools, write a short fan fiction adding to the cowboy myth of the Storyteller. Where is the Storyteller now now?!
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A Man in Black came through batwing doors into the saloon of Reginald Lawrence , founder of the Alta Calafia Bank, bought by Wells Fargo which would become a Systemically Important Financial Institution; he entered the saloon's foyer: multiwindowed, facing the east, part bar for drinking/sitting, part lobby for standing/dancing, part restaurant for eating with family or alone, bright Biedermeier colors, where no gambling was allowed. While, Lawrence sat in the windowless casino behind the tavern with a single hinged lockable door, where legendary exclusive card games occurred. The Man in Black's : skin, walking style, all black outfit, negatively alerted the : patrons, bartender, security; but the man expected said reaction and acted first, pulling out his guns toward the casino, running at full speed amidst the crowd; the three security men at his back began firing hitting patrons and him once. The security man at the casino door was killed, blindsided by the chaos. The Man in Black shot the locked door and focused to the back of the room, knowing Lawrence will be there, and killed a security guard; he took out the gun from Jessie Lee with one gold bullet and said "This is for Freemanburg".
Lawrence died and the tick tocks of Father Time's watch chimed from the Man in Black's vest; suddenly the back wall of Lawrence's saloon blew open at 12:00pm on the dot and he was taken away in the dust; as an old man, he told the story of Jessie Lee.