Jun 14, 2024 | Jason Pere, Doomtown, Doomtown Fiction, Out for Blood, Return to Gomorra
By Jason Pere So far Coot Jenkins, Rafi Hamid, and Jack “Black Jack” Jackson had not seen hide nor hair of any other living being since their arrival on Whateley Isle. The entire estate festered like one giant dying thing. From barren trees to the cracked earth and...
Jun 14, 2024 | Jason Pere, Doomtown Fiction, Out for Blood, Return to Gomorra
By Jason Pere The door to the Gomorra sheriff’s office squeaked in protest as it swung inward. The splintered piece of wood hung precariously from its hinges as it had yet to be properly repaired since the latest bout of anarchy that had befallen the town. Warren...
Jun 14, 2024 | Doomtown Fiction, Jason Pere, Out for Blood, Return to Gomorra
By Jason Pere Nighttime on Gomorra’s outskirts was never completely silent. Somewhere a nameless critter howled or squawked at the moon. Occasionally a lonesome traveler whistled to themselves on the road leading towards Sacramento, and every so often gunfire...
Jun 14, 2024 | Authors, Doomtown, Doomtown Fiction, Jeff Bailey, Out for Blood
By Jeff Bailey Wendy Cheng, formerly known as Xiong, slumped against a hitching rail and surveyed her shadow cast by the midday sun. She traced the outline of her shotgun stock that jutted out over her shoulder. She’d seen that shadow for years. She tried to remember...
Jun 14, 2024 | Authors, Doomtown, Doomtown Fiction, Jeff Bailey, Out for Blood
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 the night’s slicing talons through the sky until its grip tightened to darkness. The fingers clawed over ruined rooftops, but hadn’t yet...
Jun 14, 2024 | Jeff Bailey, Doomtown, Doomtown Fiction, Out for Blood
By Jeff Bailey Lucy Clover had suggested the theater, arguing they wouldn’t get a sense of Tombstone only by looking for roughnecks to put down. “A town without community is a prison without walls.” She and Wendy Cheng arrived early for the evening show at...
