Aces Low – Act II
By Owen Lean
May, 1882
Lane Healey and I planned to rendezvous two weeks later in Santa Fe. Now, as I approached the San Miguel church, I...
Aces Low – Act I
by Owen Lean
April, 1882
There is absolutely nothing lucky about the number seven—anyone who tells you that is a fool. As I have discovered over...
Act VI: Down on the Bayou
by Jason Pere
Padre Ernesto de Diáz felt it again, the sharp pain shooting through his bicep every time he bent his arm. He could...
Act V: Under the Castle
by Jason Pere
The musty smell and coarse scratch of fabric secured by a rope suggested to Rafi Hamid that a burlap sack covered his...
Act IV: Gettysburg
by Jason Pere
A jaundiced moon hung in the sky over the Gettysburg National Military Preserve. Within the confines of the perimeter fence, the terrain...
The Temptation of Brother Petrovic
“Vot do you see? Vot is my fated destiny?” Brother Feodor Petrovic’s fingers brushed up and down against the three cross beams of the...
Act III – The Castle
By Jason Pere
“So here’s the story. Jasper Stone was a Captain in the Confederate Army, and a right bastard by all accounts. At Gettysburg he...
Act II – The Search for Coot Jenkins
by Jason Pere
Chuan “Jen” Qí came out of Tombstone’s General Store with two armfuls of provisions. The fruitless search for Jasper Stone was drawing...
Falling Star
Falling Star
by Jeff Bailey
In most of the world, sunset was the sun’s warm embrace across the world before it receded. In Gomorra, it was...
Return to Gomorra, Part 3
So far Coot Jenkins, Rafi Hamid, and Jack “Black Jack” Jackson had not seen hide nor hair of any other living being since their...