Ian McDowell. The Hard Woman. (Asimovs October/November 2015)

A Cow-Boy story in which a travelling French music hall artiste with an extraordinary ability (the only fantastical element to the story) visits a town and ends up chasing a no-gooder into injun territory. Twenty plus pages, which will please readers of western tales, but I don’t count myself amongst those, and my patience ran out rather quickly pardner.

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