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    The Tale of August Hayling
    The Tale of August Hayling
    The Tale of August Hayling
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    The Tale of August Hayling

    By Kim Fielding

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    August Hayling went west following the discovery of gold in California. While most prospectors were hoping to strike it rich, August was more interested in a place big enough to let him get lost. Sitting alone in a saloon, he is approached by a peculiar man named Georgios Cappadocia, who offers August a fortune in gold if August will come along and help him fetch it. August soon learns that his strange new employer is engaged in some kind of ancient dispute. And when they arrive at their destination, both men will realize that not all treasures are golden—and sometimes destinies can be changed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTin Box Press
    Release dateNov 11, 2023
    ISBN9798223774389
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    Kim Fielding

    Kim Fielding is very pleased every time someone calls her eclectic. Winner of the BookLife Prize for Fiction, a Lambda Award finalist and three-time Foreword INDIE finalist, she has migrated back and forth across the western two-thirds of the United States and currently lives in California, where she long ago ran out of bookshelf space. She's a university professor who dreams of being able to travel and write full time. She also dreams of having two daughters who fully appreciate her, a husband who isn't obsessed with football, and a house that cleans itself. Some dreams are more easily obtained than others. Kim can be found on her website: http://kfieldingwrites.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KFieldingWrites and Twitter: @KFieldingWrites Her e-mail is kim@kfieldingwrites.com

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      The Tale of August Hayling - Kim Fielding

      The Tale of August Hayling

      The Tale of August Hayling

      KIM FIELDING

      Tin Box Press

      Published by Kim Fielding.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      The Tale of August Hayling Copyright ©2016 by Kim Fielding

      Cover art by Lex Chase.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law. To request permission and all other inquiries, contact the author: kfieldingwrites.com.

      This story originally appeared in the anthology Once Upon a Time in the Weird West, published by Dreamspinner Press.

      The fellow at the end of the bar kept eyeing him.

      Now, if the eyeing had been hostile, August Hayling would have put his whiskey down and let his hand hover near his holster instead. He didn’t much like to battle, but he’d do it when he had to. On account of his size—nine-tenths of the way to an ogre, they used to say at the orphanage, and he hadn’t even reached his full growth then—a surprising number of men wanted to picks fights with him. But they wouldn’t take him on without weapons, which wasn’t fair. So he practiced often with his six-shooter. He didn’t want to end up buzzard food just because he was big.

      In any case, this fellow didn’t look like he wanted to fight. His gaze was more considering, as if he was sizing August up for something besides a tussle. Back in Ohio, where August came from, men didn’t look at each other like that, at least not where anyone else could see. But things were different out here in California, where women were rarer than gold and twice as expensive. If some men looked to rub up against the nearest alternative, well, most folks agreed: better another man than nothing at all. Not that there was anything remotely girly about August, but he wasn’t ugly, and maybe he had a reputation for being a willing partaker in amorous congress. He’d always preferred stallions to mares anyhow.

      Speaking of which, this fellow was dreadful pretty, if a bit too citified for August’s tastes. His light brown hair curled around his hatless head like the halo on a storybook angel, his nose was long and thin,

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