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Short Story: The Rickety Outlaw

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There was once a mother and son, The mother lived a terrible life she was mean to the son. The son wanted to be a outlaw cowboy and call himself the rickety outlaw. His mother Jane told him that he will end up like her when she was young wanted dead or alive. Janes bounty was set at 100,000 dollars and every bounty hunter in the west was after her. She would either bribe the hunters off or shoot them. she had a horse name sally. She also carried a winchester repeater on her back and a six shot revolver in the holster on her hip. One late night before bed jane told her son that she was wanted for multiple bank robberies across the west. Well it turns out the way she got out of spending the rest of her life in prison because she created a gang

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