jack r. stedman

The world has changed.

It was always a shit place, but ever since electricity started running out the Wilds have been creeping closer: consuming towns gone dark, destroying lives and savaging the land. His country has gone off the edge into Hell.

Kael knows a thing or two about Hell.

A down-and-out gunslinger, content to die alone with a misspent life's worth of nightmares, the last thing he wants to do is go mess around in the Wilds.
Not after the last time.
But what's a man to do when his brother goes missing, and the only place to get answers is through the shadows and demons that have already sentenced him to death?
With nothing but a cryptic letter in his hand, he'll head towards the blackness to try and save his brother.

Maybe even save himself in the process.

First installment of the Dead Gunslinger series
13,000+ words
A Dark Fantasy Western