The New Sheriff

Lindsey McCuistion

The train comes to a complete stop at Baddon and you are the only one to rise and collect your bags. Everyone watches you get off in an awed silence, like they’re watching your funeral. You’re barely off the train before it starts moving again, leaving you alone on the dusty old platform.
You’re the new sheriff in town. You came here upon request of an old friend who lives here, since the old sheriff got shot a while ago and no one in a 60 mile radius would take up the position. If that wasn’t enough to jump on the job, you and everyone else in the state knows that this is the toughest, most dangerous town in America. No wonder they called you in.
Who are you, anyway?
Where is everyone?