Sixteen-year-old Randy has been playing games with her pa for as long as she can remember. When shots are fired while she's tending her ill-tempered horse one morning, the game that plays out becomes one of survival for Randy. Outlaws have shown up on the family homestead to seek revenge on her Pa from his long past Texas Ranger days. She hasn't played the game as well as she could have. Her pa dies and she's injured and on her own. Randy plans to cross the American West with her guns and her horse as her only companions as she starts her journey to the ocean to scatter the ashes of those she loved. However, the boy that saved her life after trying to steal her horse wants to join her and an old family friend convinces her that they can make good money by exploiting Randy's excellent sharpshooting skills making her out to be the Annie Oakley of the West. Randy's full name Miranda Carter quickly becomes legendary all while outlaws are hot on their tail. But it doesn't take long for Randy to realize she could do without the fame, trouble, and danger being a Carter brings her and the boy she is falling for.

The Dustbowl and tequila aren't likely to erase the regrets haunting the Fourth Horseman, but when annihilation is your sole purpose how can you find substance for your soul? "A provocative moral tale as much about embracing life as meeting Death." Sometimes prayers are best left unanswered. After the equivalence of centuries worth of service as Death, the former man is left wondering whether dying would have indeed been a more desirable option. The buzz of phasing in and out of temporal existence and lopping off heads only lasts so long. But when Death chooses to act on an event he recognizes as an "act of God," he discovers his calling to be more nobel than he thought. "Never has Death been so human as a kiddie pool, a folder chair and a bottle of regret. If only the other three horseman could be as easy to relate to."

"Abaccus" is a piece of flash fiction that tries to combine Western motifs with a bit of Eastern mythology. Originally published as an entrant into a writing competition this is the first time that "Abaccus" has been published anywhere else. Hopefully you enjoy reading it as much as I had writing it!

The world of the Samurai is dying, the way of the sword is falling in the wake of the Meji Restoration. But across the sea, a new world is being formed. A World being forged by Gold, Guts, And Gunsmoke. The Wild West.

Rett Carlile was a young man just over twenty years old. Moving from town to town because trouble seemed to find him wherever he was, Rett was a drifter. Now not looking for trouble, Rett was just as ready to give as those who gave. After a little scrap with some no goods in a small town, Rett found himself on the road again, but this time really wanting to settle down. Well, it was like that until Rick Flynn hailed his campfire one night and spoke legends of gold, indians, haunts, and the possibility of a better life. With nothing but his horse and his guns, a man needed some kind of money to start a life. Why not go hunting for some?

Gold has drawn thousands to the remote western frontier and those thousands of people have drawn something else.

"My name is Robert Cody. I am the only survivor of a game of cards that took place on June 8th 1878 in the "Hells Ranch" Saloon, Kansas." Sheriff Robert Cody and his deputy Bill Rogers face something their little town has never seen before. Murder, suicide, and a game of cards that will change everything. This is a terrifying tale with a wicked twist at the end.

The Hunters were created with one goal in life: kill the vampires that used the world as their playground with little care for the humans that inhibited it. Their blood was infused with arcane magic and the blood of one of the most powerful of vampires, giving them unique abilities that made them equals to the vampires they hunted. But their gift can only be passed on to someone willing to receive it at the time of their death. Erinis is one of few that remain and his time is almost running out to find a successor. Will he find the one he seeks in the war torn old west? Or will his kind be doomed, leaving the vampires to reign supreme?

What happens when an old gun hand makes a decision to turn his life around and set a new course? In Canyons of Steel, Johnathon Tiberius Walker makes the choice of turning his back on the underground military of the Red Hand and try to make right his own sins. All because he wants his daughter to live in a better world than he does. Walker, together with fellow agent Malcom Montgomery Watt, and former assassin Marianne Wollcott, join forces to combat the evils of the world. Along the way, they run into allies, adversaries and enemies. Some will help, some will hinder, and others will be trying to get the trio in their targetting sights. This modern day western will travel the globe as the three will ride on in a quest for justice and redemption.