Below are the first four stories in the Dustville chronicles arranged in 1880s chronological order. I have completed two other stories in the series. As these have not yet been published by some magazine, I don’t included them here.
Tracking Blackheart Bart. (A science fiction story set in the early West. After escaping from jail, Blackheart Bart seeks asylum with some aliens with interesting results. ) This story has been published in a Rogue Blades anthology Reach for the Sky, To read this story, click here: Blackheart
Coyote Woman (When the Taggart brothers burn down the Turgis ranch house, they didn’t figure on Nancy Turgis, the Coyote Woman, coming after them. The Dustville Sheriff and Injun Yano follow along behind, picking up the dead bodies and seeing that justice finally triumphs). This story was published in the May 2022 issue of Frontier Tales. You can link to the story by clicking here: Coyote Woman
The Saga of Gentleman Bert. Another story set in the early western town of Dustville. While the outlaw Bert receives punishment for his crimes, his memory lives on thanks to an imaginative entrepreneur. This story was published as the cover story in the March 2023 issue of Mystery Magazine. It is another story in the Dustville Chronicles. This story is available here on my blog. To get there, click on Gentleman Bert
Three Dark Riders When the three brothers come to Dustville to revenge their father’s death by killing the sheriff, things don’t go exactly as planned. This story was published in the July 2023 issue of Mystery Magazine. This story is now available here on my blog. To get there, click on Dark Riders
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