Winfield M1873 Talon
WINFIELD M1873 TALON. (See also, BLADED WEAPONS, RIFLE) The Winfield Talon is a brutal variation of the much-lauded side-loading, lever-action, repeating Winfield M1873. With a modified blade resembling a cleaver or axe head attached to the stock. The Winfield M1873 Talon can be used effectively at both a considerable distance and in hand-to-hand combat. The Talon can also be put to efficacious use to chop light undergrowth and to roughly butcher game while in the field
Unpublished manuscript, "Bad As They Seem
Author: Hayden Collins
Undated
Bleached paper, typewritten, 8.5x11 in
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No one living remembers their own birth. Trauma re-shapes memory, leaving in its place a sardonic likeness. But the Dead remember.
Careening towards birth and - for a time - away from death and away from fear, the Dead are formidable foes. The time spent in the Land of the Dead is a time of regeneration, of rest. The Dead build their halls of their own bones, and dine on their own flesh.
Beyond the first Hall of Bones is the Hall of Fire, and in it pools of tar burn eternal, filling the air with a thick oily smoke among which the dead walk. The twins, who had won the favor of the Lord of the Dead, walked freely among them now, though none acknowledged their presence. He had challenged them to a knife throwing contest. The fool. Knives had been one of their first playthings.
After that, it was easy to obtain what they had come for. In 14 years, he would come to return it to its resting place. Until then, the scorched and strangely etched bladed fire arm was theirs, a loyal servant to their cause.
