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In my novel Gunman’s Legacy, Peter Dexter describes a time, at the end of the Civil War, when a troop on Yankee soldiers visited his town. He says, “The rabble that rode into our town were led by a young captain called Moss, he was a rancorous bastard. But he had a lieutenant called Sebastian Farrell who was a murderous son of a bitch. His eyes were pale as the sun-bleached sky and cold as ice and he seemed to take an especial pleasure in the nastier side of his job.” This will be the story of what happened.
When the ghostly-looking Louis Syffere arrives in Wellhead, the townsfolk are immediately suspicious of his intentions. The town has recently witnessed a number of deadly gunfights between gangs of outlaws and bounty hunters and, keen to rid themselves of further trouble-makers, they take the law into their own hands. This is a short story from my Bounty Hunter series
Inspired by The Gunslinger, the first novel in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, this stand-alone short story follows a Texas Ranger on the trail of a notorious killer, but nothing is what it seems.
PH1L is a remarkable being, but he is not everything he wishes to be and and his desire to fit in sends him down a dramatic path of destruction.
Originating from oral storytelling traditions in the 17th century, the short story has grown to encompass a body of work of great diversity. They have no formal length (in terms of word count); the story’s length being defined by the requirements for telling the story, itself. There is no official demarcation between an anecdote, a short story, a novella and a novel. However, a classic definition is that a short story can be read in one sitting, of course, the length of ‘one sitting’ is, itself, a variable feast.
Some definitions place the maximum word count for a short story at anywhere between 1,000 and 4,000 words. In contemporary usage, the term often refers to a work of fiction no shorter than 1,000 and no longer than 20,000 words, with stories of less than 1,000 words sometimes referred to as ‘flash fiction’.
Many famous authors wrote short stories including Ian Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, James Joyce, Jack London and Rubén Darío.
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When is dreaming reality, and reality dreaming?
A man, after a long ride, might expect a few home comforts from a lone woman living on an isolated homestead. The woman, on the other hand, might not be happy about a stranger turning up at her place, but then again, she might.
When two shepherds, out hunting a wolf, stumble across a raggedly-dressed man chained to an alter rock they find themselves in danger of becoming embroiled in the affairs of the gods in which mere mortals should not involve themselves. However, what else are two lowly, honourable shepherds to do in such situations, but become involved.
A textile merchant visits the ancient town of Lidia to see Arachne, the world renowned spinner and weaver, but he sees much more than he expects when the boastful Arachne challenges the goddess Athena to see who is the best weaver, a mortal or a goddess. The result might surprise you.
In my novel Gunman’s Legacy, Peter Dexter describes a time, at the end of the Civil War, when a troop on Yankee soldiers visited his town. He says, “The rabble that rode into our town were led by a young captain called Moss, he was a rancorous bastard. But he had a lieutenant called Sebastian Farrell who was a murderous son of a bitch. His eyes were pale as the sun-bleached sky and cold as ice and he seemed to take an especial pleasure in the nastier side of his job.” This will be the story of what happened.
When the ghostly-looking Louis Syffere arrives in Wellhead, the townsfolk are immediately suspicious of his intentions. The town has recently witnessed a number of deadly gunfights between gangs of outlaws and bounty hunters and, keen to rid themselves of further trouble-makers, they take the law into their own hands. This is a short story from my Bounty Hunter series
Inspired by The Gunslinger, the first novel in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, this stand-alone short story follows a Texas Ranger on the trail of a notorious killer, but nothing is what it seems.
PH1L is a remarkable being, but he is not everything he wishes to be and and his desire to fit in sends him down a dramatic path of destruction.
Waiting is inspired by the style of Ernest Hemmingway in which he focused on reporting the immediate events and providing only a minimum of context, believing that the deeper meaning of a story should not be evident on the surface, but should remain unsaid , thereby leaving the reader to imagine the rest. Waiting focuses on four men who are waiting. While the reader gets to understand their current situation, it is for the reader to imagine why they arrived and where they will go.
In the severe winter of 1794/95, France crossed the frozen rivers that traditionally protected the Netherlands from invasion and quickly captured several Dutch cities. However, the freezing conditions also allowed a most unusual military action to take place on the night of the 23/24 January 1795.