"Race Day" (JWP 2015 Prompt #20, "Welcome To Bakerstown" Western AU, Rated G)

[gardnerhill]

Title: Race Day                                                                                      
Author: gardnerhill
Universe: Western AU (my Welcome to Bakerstown series)
Word Count: 1756
Rating: G
Summary: This is what I write when I listen to Aaron Copeland’s “Rodeo,” apparently.
Author's Notes: For the 2015 July Watson's Woes Promptfest

Comments

[okapi1895]

Wow! All in one day? I know it's an existing AU, but damn. That's impressive.

[gardnerhill]

Thanks. I'd wanted to write a "Fourth of July horse-race" story in my Bakerstown series for a while (this was the image I'd come up with when I'd listened to Copeland's "Rodeo") - and the prompt offered an opportunity to tell it. When you want to tell a story bad enough, sometimes the words just tumble out.

[gardnerhill]

They work everywhere, don't they? And as I say in my summation of the Bakerstown series, "The 1880s: A self-appointed man of the law, and his doctor friend who's good with a gun, stop crime in their town. But enough about 'Tombstone'."

[capt_facepalm]

I would have placed my money on Shoshone Prince and gladly lost it because the pun is so clever.

[gardnerhill]

Couldn't resist - kill two horse-stories with one prompt, so to speak. (I also loved having Silver Blaze lose the damn race as she would have - NOBODY was better with horses in the West than the Comanche.)

[aliensouldream]

It is a treat to see this done in a western style. So much fun!

[gardnerhill]

Shucks, ma'am, 'tweren't nothing.