Hangin’ Tough

When Garrett came to, the nightmares were still with him. He’d been back in Iraq, walking the war torn streets of Baghdad on a sweep with his squad, seeing up close again the daily scene of blown off limbs and dead children that he and his patrol were responsible for.

The bounty hunter found himself tied to a cartwheel and hanging naked from a wall inside Rollin’s cottage. Beneath him stood Rollins and his unclean brood of hippy sycophants. Rollins prodded Garrett in the groin with his own shotgun. Garrett vomited on a nearby cultist and asked for a cigarette.