She pulled out her page from the Bible and looked the Commandments over again. They were good rules and necessary for a good society.

Santa Maguey, Cristina Cardenas She stopped at one of her favorite spots, settled her horse and made a good camp. The lady fence gave her a couple of bottles of the delicious French wine. She drank one and ate some jerky and beans. She missed the lady fence. She thought about the woman seducing her and it made her feel good and also, sad, because she thought the lady must be very lonely. Maria could not do or be for the woman and it must have been very frustrating as Maria knew how beautiful she was to the woman. She was more beautiful than almost anyone in all the places she’d ever been.
She pulled out her page from the Bible and looked the Commandments over again. They were good rules and necessary for a good society. Maybe there was something to them. Certainly people could not live against them. Was she really living against them? She did steal, but from people who needed to be stolen from. She lied but only with the best intentions. She’d take a man if she wanted one, but not a married one. That would be unkind to the man’s wife and she would never hurt a woman or a child.
She killed, but again, it was right to kill the two bandits. She did curse, but was saying God’s name in vain really all that bad? She thought about the lady fence again. Was God just a spirit and not an old man with a big white beard floating around on clouds up in the sky, in heaven? If he was just a spirit, or even just a great force, how could you offend Him? MARIA'S TRAIL