Dora Says I Can See Why This Place Was Called Helldorado
Dear Readers,
Tombstone, Arizona was once called Helldorado. It was a well-deserved reputation. Imagine a place out in the Arizona Desert in the middle of nowhere. The sun beats down on you. Then picture gunslingers leaping out at you from the nearest doorway and shooting. You have to run and hide. There is little cover. It is a good way to end up in Boothill Cemetery perched on a hill on the edge of town.
Arizona is hell even more so than sailing on the Lusitania. That took only one week. We characters have been trapped here for over a month with no prospect of being sent anywhere else soon. Edward says it is longer than most battles. Even the raids on Turkish railroads for which Lawrence of Arabia became famous during the Great War took only a day or two at most, sometimes only a few hours.
The author doesn't consult us. She just writes. It is hell to be a character in a novel. You get told what to do all the time.
Sincerely yours,
Dora Benley
P.S. I was not stranded in Helldorado when I was writing volume one of my memoirs, King Abdullah's Tomb.
Tombstone, Arizona was once called Helldorado. It was a well-deserved reputation. Imagine a place out in the Arizona Desert in the middle of nowhere. The sun beats down on you. Then picture gunslingers leaping out at you from the nearest doorway and shooting. You have to run and hide. There is little cover. It is a good way to end up in Boothill Cemetery perched on a hill on the edge of town.
Arizona is hell even more so than sailing on the Lusitania. That took only one week. We characters have been trapped here for over a month with no prospect of being sent anywhere else soon. Edward says it is longer than most battles. Even the raids on Turkish railroads for which Lawrence of Arabia became famous during the Great War took only a day or two at most, sometimes only a few hours.
The author doesn't consult us. She just writes. It is hell to be a character in a novel. You get told what to do all the time.
Sincerely yours,
Dora Benley
P.S. I was not stranded in Helldorado when I was writing volume one of my memoirs, King Abdullah's Tomb.
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