This story was freaking brilliant! I loved every grim, gritty, bloody moment of it. I want more! More Gorel. More six-guns and sorcery. More dust.
Give me the dust, Dave.
Anyway, there was absolutely nothing about this story that wasn't perfect. I know - it makes for a boring post. What can I do to dress it up... Oh, I know. We can celebrate the rare appearance of a completely perfect story.
TONIGHT, WE WILL GET DRUNK!
Ahem. Apparently sometimes I'm even less coherent at 8:52 AM than I am at 6:24 AM. Good to know, I guess.
Anyway, what I liked best about this story, other than the perfectly placed plot, the entertainingly gritty characters, the tone - loyal to the themes of sword-and-sorcery, but with a modern twist - the delicately evoked sense of a larger setting just beyond the horizon, and the evocatively weird elements scattered throughout. Ha ha! Fooled you! You just read a list of everything I liked about the story in detail!
Ok. I'm going to just quit while I'm ahead.