Flight By John Steinbeck

            Pepé goes to town for medicine and candles and kills a man. He comes home in the middle of the night and his mother helps him prepare. He rides into the mountains with a shotgun. Weird dark figures watch him. He crosses a ridge; men are chasing him. He is very thirsty, crosses another ridge, and his horse is shot. Weird dark figure again. There is a rattlesnake and Pepé stumbles over yet another ridge. Somehow he loses the shotgun and so he stands up on top of a ridge, where he is promptly shot down. That ends the story.