Jun 14, 2024 | Doomtown, Authors, Doomtown Fiction, Jason Pere, Too Tough to Die
By Jason Pere The Bayou Vermilion train continued its creaky journey through Arizona’s southern desert. Its giltwork trim and gaudy colors contrasted with the harsh land it traversed. Xiong “Wendy” Cheng counted cacti as the train began its slow climb up yet...
Jun 14, 2024 | Doomtown, Doomtown Fiction, Owen Lean, Too Tough to Die
by Owen Lean Act 1 “Matilda, do you remember what happened?” John said when I came back. Of course I remembered. Nobody could forget a day like that and the nightmares that followed. It was the day after all that madness of the corral and the phrase “Murdered in...
Jun 14, 2024 | Authors, David Orange, Doomtown, Doomtown Fiction, There Comes a Reckoning
By David Orange Pancho Castillo paused as he entered the laboratory of the Distinguished Collegium of Interspacial Physics. Flickering gaslights illuminated two men. A tall man wearing a lab coat paced the lab, the other seated by a desk. The latter indicated an...
Apr 13, 2024 | News, 7th Sea Story, 7th Sea: City of Five Sails, Authors, Carmel Rechnitzer
“Won’t and Can’t!” by Carmel Rechnitzer Leontine was an excellent duelist with an unblemished record. Her winning streak had started at seventeen, when she’d explained to her father she would only marry a man who could best her at swordplay. The...
Mar 12, 2024 | 7th Sea Story, 7th Sea: City of Five Sails, Authors, Carmel Rechnitzer
All is Fair in Love and Intrigue by Carmel Rechnitzer The problem with amnesia…. Well, no, Yevgeni stopped himself… One of the many problems with amnesia was etiquette. It was harrowing to remember nothing of his youth. The nightmares full of guilt and sorrow...
Feb 1, 2024 | Authors, 7th Sea Story, Carmel Rechnitzer
Women’s Work by Carmel Rechnitzer “You know, my dearest Heidi, I always considered us birds of a fabulous feather, “ said Claude de la Roche. “Two peas within the same proverbial pod, as it were.” To master blacksmith Adelheide Schmidt, those words were more...
