For those unfamiliar with the famous feud, or for whom my attempt at the vernacular may fail, I apologize.I grew up in the town of Cranston, where my Pa ran the lumber yard. Population of 376. We had one traffic light that swung in the wind over Main and Elm and just blinked red, all the time. This was deep in Appalachia, and out in the hollers, folks scratched out a living like their people had done for generations, some farming, some diggin’ coal, some workin’ whatever for cash when they could get it. Dirt poor always, but proud as earls. A couple of the oldest families was the Hatfields and the McCoys. You maybe heard of them.
Ev’ry now and then, one of the men would shoot at each other rather’n rabbits, but not so much anymore and never with much verve to it. The famous feud had pretty much run its course; among the men, that is. Now the Hatfield women and the McCoy women - that there was a different story. That feud never cooled, and that’s why I am here to tell the story. The women held no stock in guns, though. They sniffed at cold killing from a distance. No sir, their blood ran much hotter’n that.
In town, we just called it the pen. Four hedge posts sunk in the dirt and three rows of bobwire, strung tight. Ev’ry five years come midsummer, a Hatfield and a McCoy would climb into the pen and they would fight. Bare fists and bare tits. Whole town there to see it, ‘cept kids. Only grown-ups, cause these fights - well, they was fuckin’ savage, no two ways about it. Blood called to blood. The hate ran deeper’n the mines thereabouts, and those are deep holes in the earth indeed. In the pen, the two women would fight, until one of them was dead. Swear to God.
The summer I turned twenty-one, it was Bobbi Hatfield and Lucinda McCoy. Born and bred to hate each other, Cindy n’ Bobbi got into scraps pretty frequent, but we always broke it up. Save it for the pen, someone would say, and that would be that.
Bobbi and me had been in the same class in school and we got on good, played together as kids and sparked some when we got older. As teen-agers, more’n once she’d let me touch her tits when we’d had somethin’ to drink. Pretty sure my cock was the first one she sucked, too. Now Cindy McCoy on the other hand, I know I wan’t her first anything. That little ginger firecracker, with her cute button nose and freckled tits, she was a year younger but she ran with the wild crowd.
Now, could be I’m partial, but I’m here to tell you Bobbi was a beauty. Like Hollywood beautiful. Her hair was thick and glossy black, and her body made men weak to think of lovin’ her. She was all hard curves. Most men was scared of her, to tell the truth. But I wan’t. Her’n me never went all the way, cause she started up with Paul Blair, but I fucked her plenty in my daydreams, her long legs wrapped around my waist, her hair acrost her face.
Cindy, she was more cute n’ sexy, with her freckles and wicked smile, the one tooth just a bit crooked. She wan’t a slut but she had her share of men, not just me. She had the most perfect ass, and a hard flat belly, and she loved me to suck her pert little nipples. Like I said, a firecracker. She got a bobwire tattoo on her bicep - did I tell you that? Her and me would fuck sometimes and when we did, she’d say what she’d do to Bobbi That Bitch when the time came, and I tell you what, it made her cum like crazy to say it while I put it to her.
Well, on the day, I made sure I was there early. The pen was twenty feet on a side square and ringside spots went fast. There wan’t any grass in the pen, just the sun-baked gray dirt. The wire was new though; the town saw to that, so that the galvanized barbs glinted in the sun. They would fight at three pm and it was a hot fuckin’ day but no way I was missing the best view I could get. There were lots of stories being swapped at the wire, mostly about past fights. Some folks kept score, and claimed the Hatfield women had won more. Some spoke with near reverence of the fight five years past, when I was too young to go, between Hallie McCoy and Maylynn Hatfield. I remembered May. They said the fight went for two hours, which I didn’t believe, and that Hallie had busted both of Maylynn’s tits before she died, which I did believe, because Hallie McCoy was the meanest bitch I ever met.
Cindy come out first, the crowd parting to let her through. She saw me at the wire and veered over to kiss me, hard, which made the folks cheer, then she slipped through, fairly skippin’ across the hard dirt. She was barefoot and in a pair of low waisted cut-offs that barely covered her ass. She stood in the dead center of the pen and peeled off her t-shirt. A roar went up when her tits were revealed, I tell you what. High, solid, full girls, made in heaven and perfect for glazing with cum, which I done more than once. Her nipples were hard and sharp, stiff upright so they cast little shadows on the curves below them.
“Where’s Bobbi?!” she whooped, and threw her shirt to me. “Come out and fight me, you fuckin’ princess!”
And here she come, already bare chested. All eyes on her tits as she swung through the wire, barefoot and in cut-offs too. An old farmer had staked the spot to my left; he was kin to the Hatfields somehow, and I got his glare for that kiss from Cindy. “She is as purty as Maylynn was,” he said about Bobbi. “Now that was a damn shame. I hope to Christ she whips that little McCoy bitch.” There wan’t much neutrality in our town come midsummer. I was one of the few genuinely on the fence, so to speak, in my rooting interest. Bobbi walked out to face Cindy, and she flowed like a panther.
“I’m here, cxnt,” she said.
Cindy grinned, and pulled her hair back into a ponytail. Her tits bobbed as she did it, and I for one knew she did it mostly to draw eyes back to herself.
“Whole town here to see you die, princess,” she said.
Bobbi clenched her fists. “I’ve pictured today so many times,” she said. “You know my favorite part, Cindy? Your eyes. The moment where the cockiness goes out of your eyes, and the fear rolls in. Then the part where you beg me, stop, no more, and I just keep on hittin’ you, until the light leaves your eyes for good.”
Cindy’s face was hooded and cold now. Her smile was gone and hate hung on her the way the fog hung on the hills early morning. I felt sweat run down my spine. My cock ached in my jeans, hard as steel.
“We both have our picture, I reckon,” she said to Bobbi, and raised her fists. “So let’s fight, bitch.”