“You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit (1968)
IF YOU ENJOYED THE LIKES OF
THE BULLET SWALLOWER by Elizabeth Gonzales-James (stories that insist you must craft your own lineage to truly live)
VALENTINE by Elizabeth Wetmore (pulped genre roots sanded to a lit-fic slick)
OLYMPUS, TEXAS by Stacey Swann (a heavy cowboy coat over building blocks of storytelling tradition)
THE VASTER WILDS by Lauren Groff (closely-narrated adventures kicked off by a young girl in flight)
NICKED by M. T. Anderson (fresh historical fiction steeped in Catholic mythos and the follies of greed)
TOM’S CROSSING by Mark Z. Danielewski (you want your Westerns postmodern and you want them now)
OR YOU’VE EVER THOUGHT TO YOURSELF
“What would happen if Aragorn, son of Arathorn, took legal guardianship of a feral reject from The Sound of Music?”
YOU MAY BE INTRIGUED BY THE FORTHCOMING TALE:
FELLA
an American fable
Lost in the frontier of the American West, a defiant girl infested with angels finds an unlikely protector in a jaded, debt-laden deadeye.
April 17, 2026 - FELLA is on submission!
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