Age of Monsters by Tim Marquitz

Author:Tim Marquitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Outland Entertainment
Published: 2018-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

DEVIL’S CAP BRAWL

EDWARD M. ERDELAC

:: A ‘Dead West’ short story

JOE BLAS WAS SO CALLED because his papist upbringing in Drom, County Tipperary, had given him a knack for devising the most ingenious blasphemies anyone on either side of the Sierras had ever heard.

He blew hot air into the cold red palms of his hands and turned that coarse and inventive tongue against Chow Lan, the agent for the forty coolies under his charge.

“Jesus Christ’s holey hands an’ feet! What d’you mean they’re scared to blast? We’ve blown though every goddamned cliff and mountain since Dutch Flat with no issue. What’s different about this one?”

Chow Lan’s job was to act as liaison between the red-in-the-face Irish riding boss and his aforementioned forty countrymen, who made up the spearhead of the work gang Charles Crocker had hired on to get the Central Pacific Railroad into Utah by 1867. He divvied up their paychecks, keeping a customary cut of it for himself, placed orders with the gwailo agent for suitable foodstuffs for their cook, and voiced employee concerns when the situation arose.

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