The Bully Killer
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As he was returning home to Arabela, New Mexico, Singing Fire contemplated the full gut wrenching details concerning the attempted murder of Nikos Diamantopoulos. Before embarking on this troubleshooting procedure Ray found it necessary to go within himself for a time, to meditate, using the methods he learned in the Orient, combined with what he knew from his tribal heritage. Another climb was necessary to go where he wanted to be---absolute solitude. He began the ascent of the 10,083 foot Capitan Peak from its east slopes facing his backyard. It wouldn t be remotely as difficult as Shiprock. After spending time with his wolverine and his coyote, Ray took some water, pine nuts, raisins and apples, and started through the woods. A faint smile came to his face as he recalled that the region comprised what was once the habitat of the legendary Smokey Bear, used as a mascot in appeals to prevent forest fires. Ray studied the impressive configuration of an immense cloud formation to the north of the peak, which appeared to be drifting south. This particular group of stratocumulus clouds looked like the judgement seat of the Almighty, and he sensed he had no choice but to be used as a conduit for ending Big Bull Chaney s reign of terror on earth! After several hours of moving upwards through increasingly rough terrain, he stood atop the summit for the 46th time. It was his favorite place for meditation. On only three climbs did he encounter others on the mountain. Solitude was guaranteed. It was evening by then, as Ray lay down face up atop the peak and got into a light sleeping bag. He placed a wad of aspen leaves he picked up on the lower slopes under his head as a makeshift pillow. Singing Fire looked up at the innumerable white pinpoints of light that were the stars in the cool, deep, dark night sky and knew there were parts of his heritage no amount of mining, logging, or population explosion could touch. However, as he continued gazing at the countless stars, he thought about the hundreds of fire ant stings Nikos took at the hands of Bull Chaney, and he became enraged. He went into a trancelike state as he lay there thinking about how Bull tried to kill Nikos. It began coming to his consciousness in a fully developed scenario what electrifying retribution he was going to unleash against Chaney, who was about to experience the equivalent of being a Voodoo doll shot through with needles! Singing Fire was becoming a powder keg just thinking about it! He would drive south to Canutillo next evening and begin teaching Bull a terrible lesson concerning the consequences of willfully causing suffering! Only one detail was as yet uncertain, whether or not he would kill Bull. He was inclined to, as Bull meant to kill Nikos, and Bull was a lot like the rednecks who killed his own father, only worse, so why not kill him? Still, he felt uncertainty about killing Bull, but he was free to proceed with his other worked out intentions. A log going through a sawmill had something better to look forward to than that oversized jerk!
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The Bully Killer describes the life of Big Bull Chaney, the worst bully in Texas/New Mexico history, his upbringing and his lowlife associates who raise hell at a nightclub in El Paso called Wild Eyes. Bull Chaney started with bad genetics-his vicious parents, and began his criminal hobby of bullying in elementary school. Raised in an atmosphere of outrageous cruelty against animals, with his uncle Jeeter running an organized dog fighting ring, Big Bull Chaney grows to be close to seven feet tall and over 300 pounds. He inherits a beer distributorship from his father who bought it with pirated funds, and who is unexpectedly killed while choking an outlaw biker at Wild Eyes. Bull has many successes in bullying other men; however, his luck turns bad when, at an international festival in El Paso, he confronts a giant Viking strongman and a Kung Fu expert from Asia, and he realizes that either of these men could easily destroy him! His ego having suffered major damage, he resolves to find someone that very day on whom he can take out his rage and wrath. While still at the festival, he sees Nikos Diamantopoulos, a 14-year old boy, dressed in an ethnic Greek costume from a closed era, something like a Scottish kilt. The costume infuriates Bull who, with his cowboy, blue jeans, and monster truck mentality, vows to catch Nikos and deal him a severe lesson. Bull finds Nikos walking home through a dark neighborhood and sets two of his killer dogs on the boy, who is badly injured, yet saved from death by his brave dog Rocket, who arrived and diverted the violence to himself. Bull leaves Nikos atop a fire ant mound, worsening his injuries. By means of a fortunate chain of events, a high tech medicine man, Ray Singing Fire, who has boyhood debts to two Greeks, enters the picture and vows to right things for Nikos. Unfortunately for Big Bull Chaney, Singing Fire has many of the same Kung Fu skills as Chang Tien Ming, one of the men who made Bull back away at the El Paso festival. Singing Fire corners Bull at Wild Eyes and, in front of his own criminal associates, gives Bull a gut wrenching lesson about stinging insects, feeling this appropriate retribution for the many fire ant stings Nikos took. Additionally, Singing Fire does major damage to Bull's beer distributorship, causing a steep decline in sales through a clandestine mailing to its customers. Now the angriest man on earth, Bull plans revenge on the Indian medicine man, but cannot locate him. An effort to find Nikos also failed. In frustration, Bull journeys to Eagle Pass, Texas, to visit uncle Jeeter about the problem, who then consults with the Chaney family attorney, Wade Blankenship. The lawyer calls a Mafia phone number, and arranges to bring in a Greek speaking gangster to act as a spy to locate Nikos. With the confidence of Nikos clergyman gained, the spy locates Nikos, who is then kidnapped, along with his doctor and his parents. A video of the victims being menaced by Bull's killer dogs is sent to the Greek Orthodox priest, who then contacts Singing Fire at his reclusive New Mexico home. The medicine man must devise a way to save the victims from Big Bull Chaney, who plans to execute them by dog mauling at a secretive dog fighting site in remote West Texas, in full view of around 100 criminals invited from all over the United States. The climax of chapter 5 illustrates that those who are wantonly violent usually encounter someone they cannot face, as Bull dies under the claws and teeth of the medicine man's wolverine, a weapon he desperately tries to avoid using. Chapter 6 depicts Bull suffering in hell, the fate unquestionably awaiting all bullies, but it also details the restoration of Nikos to a normal life through regenerative medicine; portrays his dog Rocket at the gates of heaven; and his new companion dog, Rocket II, graciously arranged for his by the veterinarian, Ed Landerholme, who was able to salvage material from the original dog who sacrificed his life. The Bully Killer is a fairly detailed story (over 104,000 words, with three original songs and four illustrations) of wicked deeds and retaliation by the good guys, but it is also a highly moralistic literature denouncing all forms of bullying, including cruelty to animals; police brutality; psychiatric criminality and the terminological fraud they resort to; bullying by means of unnecessary surgery and damaging prescription drugs which are often inferior to natural substances; abuses against Native Americans; road rage bullying and other examples. If the reader has the courage to face controversy, The Bully Killer delivers it like a trainload!
About the Author
The author has seen and faced bullies all his life and always found them to be cowards. His "martial art" of choice is that of being a strongman. His feats without steroids include a strict military press of 50% over bodyweight; one arm chin ups with either arm, while carrying additional weight; and armwrestling prowess, with which he enjoys humiliating bullies. He is a confirmed animal lover whose deepest experiences have always been with pet dogs, having found them better, if simpler, companions than people. The author is intensely interested in all legal means of curtailing bullying in all forms, being a subscriber to the philosophy of "live and let live."