Lance Wins a Prize
Hey – Lance’s tale, Unfinished Business and Burning Greed, received an honorable mention in the 2010 Art Affair Annual Literary Contests in the Western Short Story category. (Sound of galloping hooves to your nearest bookstore, except alas the series has yet to find a publisher, oh well.) Go Lance! Tweet
Modern Musak and the Art of Innocence
A Lance Sidesaddle Saga By Lance Sidesaddle Sundown. End of another busy day in this Capitol of the High Plateau, Preskitt, town that I love. As evening shadows stretch across the Plaza with a faint rubbery sound, I’m having a double-wide latte with sprinkles in Saint Mike’s and thinking how’m I gonna afford myself a […]
Hard-Boiled Looks and Overdue Books
A Lance Sidesaddle SagaBy Lance Sidesaddle A pale and merciless sky stretches to infinity over the vast Mogollon Plateau. Towers of summer thunderheads mass on the far horizon, dark undersides laced with ragged lightning. This land is barren, empty, save for two fast ponies rushing down the precarious face of a rugged escarpment, dodging among […]
Unfinished Business and Burning Greed
A Lance Sidesaddle Saga By Lance Sidesaddle When it begins to turn chilly in the Old West, when autumn starts its long decline into winter, when civilized folks become a bit rushed, preoccupied, a little less polite – to me it feels kinda like the Fall of Western Civilization. A coolish November afternoon on Courthouse […]
Lonely Hearts and Serious Side Effects
A Lance Sidesaddle Saga By Lance Sidesaddle A warmish September afternoon on Courthouse Plaza lingers on towards sundown. But while work is ending for most honest Preskitt folks, my job as defender of the peace is just beginning. Yah, you know me – Without warning, the desk telephone rings in my office in this fleabag […]
Love Her Wicked Little Schemes
By Lance Sidesaddle Sundown. End of a hot July day in the high desert. But while work is over for most honest Preskitt folks, my job as defender of the peace is just beginning. Yah, you know me-Lance Sidesaddle, private detective. So I’m here in my office in this fleabag hotel overlooking Whiskey Row. Once […]
Desert Songbird and the Stagecoach Bust
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