“A bargain was struck: to sacrifice one, one to run and strike the ancient chime, to awaken the god at dusk. This would ease the god’s wrath and spare the clan. Soon, as would happen to all of their ilk, the clan’s numbers dwindled, not just from the god’s arrangement, but life on the steppe itself was arbitrary in its judgements.” -- Jebediah Stoll, Sunsetter (from the novel Weathervane, by Ross McDermott)
#WIPSnips #lottery (vibe) #amwriting #horror #western #genre-bending #fiction
From the #novel #Weathervane and prequel to current #wip Sunsetter #comingsoon
*Author's note: not any #lottery I would want to play! #shortquote #origins