Slade (short story)
Slade is an early short story (about 5,200 words) by Stephen King that the author published in eight sequels in a campus magazine in 1970 . It is a western parody about the gunslinger Jack Slade, who protects a lady in need against a gang of criminals.
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The gunslinger Jack Slade comes to Dead Steer Springs because a ranch owner, Sandra Dawson, asks him for help against the gang around the criminal Sam Columbine. The truth is, it's all a conspiracy. Sandra is Slade's ex-lover who he believes dead. Since she can no longer stand it with him, however, she has teamed up with his archenemy to eliminate Slade. But neither are counting on Slade's bulletproof underwear: The supposedly defeated in the duel shoots both of them in the end and moves on to further adventures.