Make Up a Story
Stories from Around the World
The Wild West
By the Shepherd House storytellers facilitated by Karin
Some guy is getting ready to get blown away. There's flowers. This young lady is about to be killed. She doesn't have a gun on her. It looks like the wild, wild west.
He's going to propose to Charlene. Charlene is 25 years old. His name is George and he is 26 or 40. In the wild west the women were younger and then men older. It's spring time.
George and Charlene met at the cemetery visiting graves. Charlene's husband was killed in the war by Indians. George's wife was killed in a car accident.
Yes, maybe there was an accident. Someone was on the rail road tracks and got run over. The sheriff doesn't have to hunt him down because it was an accident.
Then Lassie comes along and finds the bodies from the accident.
Charlene can't afford the burial ceremony for her husband. She doesn't have any money. George can't the burial ceremony for his wife either.
They got married. The jury found her not guilty. He was a nice guy but she was a bitch.
In the wild west, you had to have a gun or a knife to defend yourself. If you make a play like you're going for a gun, they'll blow you away.
Charlene is going home to see if he has a life insurance policy. And she wants to make sure he's dead before she gets
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