Pulp Fiction, 1955 · page 32 of 101
15 Western Short Stories — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Analysis This is a **story page with accompanying illustration** from a pulp-fiction magazine. The story, titled "Way of Dying" by Mark Lish, appears to be a Western action tale. The visible text describes a standoff between a posse of eleven men, including Sheriff Taney and several casualties, surrounding a cabin where "the Sheepfaced Kid" is fortified. The posse has pinned down their target but cannot advance without exposure to gunfire. The illustration shows a gunfighter in dynamic action pose, firing dual pistols during what appears to be an armed confrontation, consistent with the Western gunfight narrative.
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by MARK LISH He came helling finally EY! YOU fellers out there!” Nobody answered, though the hail brought sharper alert- ness to eleven men scattered in rough circle all round the sloping knoll on which the old cabin stood. It checked too the desultory conversation of five grouped more closely than most here on the door side, at the base of a sheltering four-foot cutbank. Four of these were casualties, three slight—a creased shoulder and a grazed hipbone and a chipped elbow— and Sheriff Taney with his bone- shattered instep on which it seemed as they'd expected, a Colt in each hand spitting fire and lead and death. Such a one could never have had a soft spot in his heart.... unlikely he ever would walk again. The Sheepfaced Kid was in that thick- logged fortress yonder, and what the Kid saw, he shot at; and what he shot at, he hit. It had been stalemate all the hot weary day. If the posse was pinned down, dared not show so much as a boot toe outside the meager shelters they had found along the knoll’s skirts, neither had the Sheepfaced Kid any hope of breaking through the ring they made. So they’d waited in the sweltering heat, waited now, the long- pull advantage theirs, having access to The kid had left two more dead men in the hills. 32 cCOMmichoooks.cO©