Sasha Fletcher

RECOMMENDED: The best new fiction in NYCIt is said that bandits travel in packs or not at all; it is said that every bandit is alone inside with all of the lives that it took to bring them upon you; it is said that if you kill a bandit that bandit will walk on out your mouth leaving your skin behind and taking with it your teeth and your mouth and anything you possess of value, which has lead some to believe that the bandits will come into possession of their houses, or their wives, or their children, or their gold claims, and now please imagine the bandits proceeding across the country with said wives and children and houses and gold claims tied up in little bundles on sticks rested on their shoulders and who wouldn’t giggle at something as absurd as all that? The investigators would not giggle at something as absurd as all that. Their experiments with knit ties have yielded positive results in that they are positive they will continue to wear them. Their belief that it lends a homely touch to their narrative is not without merit but that is neither here nor there, in that if we keep talking about this we will be taken out back and shot and strung up from the back of their train compartment as though we were a sack of meat left out to cure, as they had done for years off the porch of their shack that traversed the country on stilt high legs that we would say were chicken legs if we were the kind of people who wanted to believe in myths. The investigators feel as though the n