Shelter

Metty stood at the edge of the cave, looking like a barber’s cat. He squeezed his eyes shut against the slashing sunlight. Hunched over, breathing deep, desperate to loosen the dust and dead air from his lungs.

A week earlier, he and the Cadott brothers holed up in the cave. They’d just started to split the take from the train robbery when the back collapsed, trapping them inside. Nothing stirred in the valley below, so Metty turned back and began dragging the knotted-together saddlebags through the tunnel.

In the cave, three corpses slumped together. Blood still running through the dust.

Prompt courtesy of Sue Vincent’s #writephoto challenge.

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