Tornado Alley

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Genres: Fiction
It's cancer, isn't it?"Afternoon sunlight through Venetian blinds fell on the speaker, like prison bars ... a slender, elderly man in a shabby gray suit, a heavy cojoba-wood cane between his thin knees, a senior citizen like you see sitting on park benches or playing shuffle-board. But the eyes behind steel-rimmed spectacles glittered with disquieting gaiety, with a remote, chilling happiness. The man smiled."After all, Doctor, we have known each other for a long time."A long time. Doctor Hill ...was perhaps the only man in Boulder who knew that the man sitting across from him had once been the best shootist in the West. Not the fastest gun, but the surest."Yes, it's cancer. Of course it might be operable . . . have to go in to make sure, but—""You doubt it.""If it was my stomach, I'd say no.""These surgeons are knife-happy ... worse than Mexicans."The doctor knew that Lee Ice was well-read—in fact, a learned man. But it amused him sometimes to talk like an illiterate redneck."Well, how much time would you say?MoreLess

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