Jun 14, 2024 | Out for Blood, Authors, Doomtown
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, 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 | 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...