Lady-Ash2 User Profile | DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Literature

Support Your Local Sheriff Ashley

Boom-town! There's gold in them thar hills! Seemingly overnight the sniff of the yellow metal has transformed the tiny western town of Calendar, Colorado into a bustling city of prospectors, profiteers, and pure chaos! Ashley Strong saw the town and sighed. She'd hoped that she would arrive early. Before the chaos. But such is the way of things. It didn't matter. She'd still get some prospecting in. Maybe she'd find some gold. Maybe she wouldn't. But that was all secondary to her plan. What was important right now was that she was hungry. She tied off her horse at the almost full hitching post and walked to Emma's Tasty Emporium - a hastily thrown together kitchen serving equally hastily thrown together food. But it looked like food and even at the ridiculously inflated $3.00 a meal, it was still something. Ashley sat down at one of the long tables set up outside. "Is there really gold in these hills?" she asks the prospector sitting next to her. The grubby, graying miner pulls out