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a midnight ride by paulmescalien
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
10 Feb 2026
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“—the fuck you just say to me?” Gary realizes perhaps a half-second too late that maybe he should watch his tongue, but he wants to know what kind of backwoods, riddle-spitting motherfucker would just waltz up to a guy and say something like that without so much as a ‘hello’ or a ‘fuck you’ first. His gaze narrows. The man moves further forward, hanging the lantern from a hook on a nearby support beam and stepping into the warm yellow light it throws out. The few tufts of blond that Gary can see peeking out from beneath his hat look almost golden in the light. This man, Gary thinks, he looks like the star of some old western—a sharp, clean shaven jaw and a chambray shirt tucked into starched denim. The kind of man his meemaw would’ve fawned over on the television. He walks with a sort of swagger that has Gary’s gaze flickering from his face to his hips and back again before he comes to a stop just in front of him.
“I said—” the bowl is thrust out in a wordless offer, “—you look like you been rode hard and put away wet.”
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or: the one where gary's a runaway who stumbles upon the major's ranch where he gets more than just a hot meal and a place to sleep from his son, billy