title: Tough Job in Driftwood: Western Stories: 2011 - 2016
author:  Richard Prosch 
description: After growing up on a Nebraska farm, Richard Prosch has worked as a professional writer and artist while in Wyoming, South Carolina, and Missouri. His western crime fiction captures the fleeting history and lonely frontier stories of his youth, where characters arent always what they seem and the wind-burnt landscape is filled with swift, deadly danger. In 2016, Richard won the Spur Award for short fiction given by Western Writers of America.
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  Halliday was minding his own business when he rode straight
  
  
  into a shooting-match between a pair of youngsters and a bunch of
  
  
  seasoned gunmen. The contest was so uneven that he just couldn’t
  
  
  pass on by, so he took a hand ... and soon found himself caught up
  
  
  in the middle of a bitter range war.
  
  
  Donna Heller and her hair-trigger kid brother Kip were
  
  
  struggling to hold their ranch against cattleman Nathan Dean. Dean
  
  
  wanted their land and had hired a whole passel of gunfighters to
  
  
  make sure he got it. It was an old story, and Halliday had heard
  
  
  all too often in the past, but this time ... this time something
  
  
  just didn’t sit right with him, and he wondered if everything was
  
  
  really as it seemed.
  
  
  Even as he and Donna grew closer to each other, the girl threw
  
  
  him a further surprise. She was an outlaw’s woman 