title: After The Bullfight, and other stories
author:  Robert Leon Casey 
description: Born in Detroit, Michigan, Robert Leon Casey raced motorcycles as a teen and was forced to attend his sisters ballet recitals. He then backpacked through twenty-three countries on five continents, where he explored the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Egypt, Machu Picchu, Teotihuacn, Chichn Itz, Akrotiri, and even made his way above the Arctic Circle. He settled in southern California and soon became a Screen Actors Guild member, sharing stage and screen roles with an Academy Award nominee, a Golden Globe winner, and a Tony Award nominee. He has played guitar at legendary rock-and-roll clubs in Los Angeles, tutored Spanish, and has jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. In Caseys stories, the reader will experience unexpected moments of escapist realism. The style is a confluence of fantastic, dreamlike, or illogical elements within normal, ordinary, and rational events. Caseys characters often struggle on the blurred boundary between those two worlds. This is his first collection of stories. After making fleeting appearances in the classrooms of several universities, including Harvard and Duke, Casey collected his units and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in history and political science from UCLA. He has a sixteen year-old car with a bad clutch and currently lives in San Diego, California, where he attends law school. He is active in organizations that provide assistance to underprivileged children in the United States and Mxico.
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  Contents
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Chapter 2
  
  Chapter 3
  
  Chapter 4
  
  Chapter 5
  
  Chapter 6
  
  Chapter 7
  
  Chapter 8
  
  Chapter 9
  
  Chapter 10
  
  Chapter 11
  
  Chapter 12
  
  Chapter 13
  
  Chapter 14
  
  Chapter 15
  
  Chapter 16
  
  Chapter 17
  
  Chapter 18
  
  Epilogue
  
  An Excerpt from _Sweet Revenge_
  
   _About the Author_
  
   _By Lynsay Sands_
  
   _Copyright_
  
   _About the Publisher_
  
  > **Chapter 1**
  
  CAM HEARD THE TROUBLE ON THE TRAIL AHEAD before he saw it. The screams made
  him instinctively slow his horse as he rounded the bend, but when he saw a
  young boy being held by the scruff of his shirt and beaten by a big bull of a
  man, Cam reached for his sword and spurred his horse to move faster. A
  heartbeat later he’d reached the pair.
  
  The thud of his boots hitting the ground made the assailant glance around,
  just in time to see Cam’s sword hilt before it slammed into the big oaf’s
  head. The fellow went down like a stone, unfortunately falling on the boy and
  landing with enough