Six Seconds of Daylight

Synopsis

The story about Wyatt Rourke and the six seconds outside the Bellamy in seventy-one gets told in this town roughly once a week, usually to somebody passing through, and usually by a man who was not there. Rourke keeps a store. He is fifty-eight. He has not carried in eleven years and he does not correct the story, because correcting it would mean telling it, and telling it would mean saying out loud what the other man's name was. In April a young man takes a room above the saloon and begins asking, politely, where the store is.

Who this is about

Wyatt Rourke keeps a store in a town where the story of what he did in seventy-one is told a great deal more often than he has ever told it.

What goes wrong

A young man arrives who has heard the story and would very much like it to have a sequel.

What's at stake

Rourke can end it in six seconds, or spend what is left of his life being the man who would not.

Why it keeps going

Each episode the young man escalates by one small degree, and each degree is still one Rourke could walk away from.

Takeaway

A reputation is a debt other people keep taking out in your name.

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