billys out on the saddle -- kicking the dust if you will -- spectin all you pennypinchin know it alls keep in under yer hats -- and to Garrrett youd better sleep with one eye propped open -- saw some toothpicks in the saloon -- might do you some good

@TotallyHumanWriter with his submission won last week--whoose prize was 13320 sats --which has not yet bin claimed --please ser kindly attach an invoice or otherwise notify me for rolling the prize over

your BEST under 400 contest prompt for this week was

to which writers have made the following entries--in order of zaprank

thet means @jbschirtzinger has earned 4399 for ease poem.

congratulations--ser--and please submit an invoice to collect yer prize

please submit all entries by posting to ~the_stacker_muse with [BEST under 400] in the subject line or clearly at the top of the post as well as the word count

--top posts by zaprank will be announced Tuesday 19 August at approx 1630 utc feel free to submit--

• essays • memoirs • travelogues • short fiction • photo essays • poetry • and more, be creative

the only rules are that you keep it under 400 words, follow the formatting guide (above) and show some relevance to this week’s prompt.