Sky Full of Sand

Uriah Walkinghorse is 42 years old and in a pinch. It's tightening on him day by day. Things didn't seem all that gad just a few months ago; it almost seemed like life was all right, in fact, and he had something of a future, even several possible futures. As a serious body-builder, he knew his gory days had been over for 20 years, but hell, he was happily married, he could still bench-press 400 lbs., and he brought home the bread to Gert, his leggy German wife. That was before she left him for Trey Stovekiss the race-car driver, though. This is how it starts: a lonely and abandoned man, eking along in El Paso, looking for something - anything - to take his mind off his troubles, a man ripe for troubles of a completely different kind in the form of Hona Farnsworth, a hard-edged beauty with an offer to sweet to refuse. Sometimes Hell is worth it.