The stairs were removed from the back of the wagon and a cowboy climbed onto the buckboard’s seat and took the reins. With a cheery coldness he said “Enjoy the ride ladies.”
The wagon pulled slowly forward and the women were forced to walk towards the back of the wagon. It would be a short walk and Siss asked “Do you still think they are just trying to scare us?”
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The wagon continued forward. When it became obvious that it wasn’t going to stop and they had run out of wood to stand on, Barb said “Let’s get this over with” and stepped into air! Roxie tried to balance on her heels but seconds later she too was swinging above the ground. Siss yelled to the crowd “Rot in hell, you bast… AAWWWK!”
The three ladies were hanged!
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The nooses pressed against their throats and they fought to breathe. For a few minutes it was possible but the ropes were slowly constricting about their necks. The hard it was to inhale the more they thrashed in futile desperation to escape.
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The wild thrashing pleased the crowd but soon it slowed to fitful jerks. It wouldn’t be long before…
“Damn, what a terrible dream!” she said to no one in the room. “God, I was burned at the stake and those poor women were hanged because I wasn’t there to be lynched!”
She lay back on the bed and slipped her fingers between her legs and moaned “but the black studs in Detroit were damn good, and the railroad engineer was pretty good. The 40 guys on the tour bus weren’t the best but what they lacked in quality they made up for with quantity…”
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So ends this part of Dorothy Brown’s tale. ‘On The Road With Siss And Barb’ continues on its original thread. Oh, and don’t think Dorothy is out of trouble! There is still that issue of her driving 150 in a 20 MPH school zone, but we’ll get to that in a bit…
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new "on the road with Siss and Barb" adventure coming soon on its original thread....we hope, right Siss???