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" Oh, very nice to see I was afforded a few scraps,” she said, smiling and plucking a chicken leg out of Heck’s hand before he could take his first bite. “Don’t get between me and my chow, old lady,” Heck said. “We’ll tussle.” “You’ll lose,” Agnes said, taking a bite. “Food’s always better after a battle. Sex, too.” Jimmie’s horrified face came up out of his plate. Max, Ava, and Lovina laughed, and Heck hugged Agnes and leaned in close to take a bite of her chicken leg. “Aw, a lassie after my own heart,” Heck said. “Care for a quick snog, you fiery vixen? "
― R.S. Belcher , The Brotherhood of the Wheel (Brotherhood of the Wheel, #1)
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" And the good, good people of the small town of Golgotha, many of them, when they saw the Stained, saw what they did to those they caught up to; they forgot to love their neighbor, forgot to lend a helping hand, forgot to do unto others as they would have them do unto themselves. They ran, ran like animals frightened by the storm. Pushing, shoving, the weak, the innocent, the frail, all falling under their feet. Many of the souls Golgotha called, called to across the desert, across the plains and the oceans and the night sky, many of them were not good people. "
― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)
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" The tyrant-father of Heaven, the one who created, hated and drove out the first woman, yoked men with a horrible curse, far worse than any imagined to have been handed down to Eve. Men were told they were masters of this world, of their mates, of the beasts and fish, of the land and sea and sky. How ridiculous! That’s like telling a little boy he’s in charge of the house when his da is gone. It’s silly! “And like that little boy, men have tried to live up to the unreasonable demands of their mute, wayward, celestial father. They have enslaved and dominated, conquered and killed, all in the name of shepherding, of protecting, of ruling the world. They spend their lives trying to do what they think is right, what their father on high would want of them. The bastard. "
― R.S. Belcher , The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)