There are two things you can’t escape out here in the West: dust and death. They sort of swirl together in the wind, and a fellow never knows when a fresh gust is going to blow one or the other right in his face. So while I’m yet a young man, I’ve already laid eyes on every manner of demise you could put a name to. I’ve seen folks drowned, shot, stabbed, starved, frozen, poisoned, hung, crushed, gored by steers, dragged by horses, bitten by snakes, and carried off by an assortment of illnesses with which I could fill the rest of this book and another besides.
So it’s quite a compliment I bestow when I say that the remains we came across the day after the big storm were the most frightful I’d ever seen.
(Tuesday Teaser from Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith)
Sounds like a fun book. Great teaser.
+JMJ+
The dark humour is strangely refreshing. The speaker sounds like a great storyteller. =)
I’m listening to the audio version, and the narrator is just great with the character, too.
Awesome teaser! Very deep!
http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/07/teaser-tuesday_11.html
I like how dark it sounds.
My TT: http://www.rundpinne.com/2011/07/teaser-tuesdays-my-book-teaser-is-from-in-her-wake.html
Wow! That has to be one of the best teasers I’ve read in ages! I’m absolutely captivated!
Off to look up Holmes on the Range now!
http://thebookgatherer.blogspot.com/2011/07/teaser-tuesdays_12.html
Great teaser! But wherever he is, I don’t think I’d want to go there.
Very very intriguing indeed! Here is mine:
http://jbabel.blogspot.com/2011/07/teaser-tuesdays-sea-of-poppies-by.html
Sounds interesting!
http://fantasysink.blogspot.com/2011/07/teaser-tuesday-9.html
Wow. that is a lot there in that teaser. Wonderful. Thank you!
Great teaser!