Blood & Tacos #3 (15 page)

“His day will come,” Blood said. “We will smoke together yet, you’ll see.”

“I intend to be there,” Sweetgrass said. “Just try and stop me.”

Blood laughed. “I have already tried once, and failed. I will not try again.”

He looked at her face, into her eyes, then leaned forward and kissed her. It was a deep kiss, and lingered long.

“You seem eager to try other things,” Sweetgrass said when they came up for air.

“That I am,” he said, his voice husky.

“I would invite you to my house, but my aunt and her big mouth will be there.”

“Then I guess it is time you saw my trailer,” he said.

The pair turned and walked back to the truck. They got in, and Blood pulled away from the powwow grounds. As they pulled onto the dark road that led east, away from the highway and toward the Jocko Hills, Blood said, “At least The Colonel learned one important lesson tonight.”

“What’s that, Blood?”

“He learned,” Blood said, “this rez is mine.”

THE END

Chris La Tray
is a rocker, a writer, and a wannabe adventurer.
His nonfiction writing has appeared in the
Missoula Independent, Vintage
Guitar
magazine, and
World Explorer
magazine. His short fiction
has appeared at
Beat to a Pulp; Pulp Modern; the Crimefactory special edition,
Kung Fu Factory; Noir at the Bar; Needle: A Magazine of Noir
, and the charity
anthology
Off the Record
. His story “Run for the Roses” was the winner
of the 2011 Watery Graves Invitational story competition, while his story “Genny
Bow” won the 2012 Watery Graves Invitational story competition as well. He lives
and travels from Missoula, MT, where folks seem overly impressed by how loud
his obnoxious rock band, American Falcon, is. Obviously none of them have aurally
experienced High on Fire.

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