Riders of the Dust-Gray Steppe: A Pleistocene Western & Fourteen Other Dispatches From Distant Times and Strange Places

by Richard Wolkomir

Overview

He's just a boy-he doesn't tell us his name, only that he's lame-but he's first to see the witches approach. They come across the frozen steppe, astride dire wolves, herding saber-toothed cats. Afterwards, the boy's no longer just a boy. And the town's no longer what it was.

That's the first story of fifteen.

How about the alien visitor to a little town in New Hampshire, who gets sloshed on Diet Pepsi?

These stories cover the emotional map. However, they have this in common: from a Pleistocene western to a noir private-eye farce, involving trolls and a petulant homunculus, they transport you out of this world, and out of this time.

If you like stepping away from the ordinary, these stories take you where you want to go.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781508803584
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/15/2015
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Richard Wolkomir has worked as a laundry sheet folder, zoo bear-cub keeper, roofer, groundskeeper, newspaper reporter, and contributor of award-winning articles and essays to such magazines as Reader's Digest, Smithsonian, and National Geographic. Now he's writing novels--fantasies, mysteries, thrillers. His speculative short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary journals. More information at www.richardjoycewolkomir.net