Mile High Cold and Other Stories

 

Freelance – A freelance dealer of illegal prose and arts is encountered by a bounty hunter interested in stopping the dealer’s unsanctioned distribution of lost history, literature, and music in a future America.

 

The Kid in the Cold – William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, is trapped by Pat Garrett’s posse on Christmas eve of 1880.  Bonney reminisces on his life and how he got to the end of the road.

 

In the Eyes – Two 19th century London children of Whitechapel are the recipients of an extraordinary gift from a brilliant doctor.  Their gift provides them new strength and confidence to face the horrors of poverty and crime.

 

Hunger – A Banana Republic dictator rules his land with an iron hand by winning his people through their stomach.

 

Blanket of Crickets – An ancient evil descends on the occupants of a Texas motel for an overnight stay.

 

Invisible Chain –   A hit man and hit woman, hired by the same super corporation, cross paths when they find their hits are not what they seem.

 

Le Morte d’Dupin – The chronicler of Dupin’s brilliant exploits tells his story and how revenge and jealousy over Dupin’s fame finally overwhelms him.

 

The Spring Stand – The innocence of a school playground is shattered when attacked by a group of renegade Cheyenne set on revenging broken peace treaties.

 

Three Ravens -- Strangers invade the peace of an 1872 American prairie town after two young girls, abducted by renegade Plains Indians, are temporarily rescued.

 

The Case of the Glowing Scarabs – Mister W. Edmiston, an American Wild West consulting detective, is faced with the job of saving President Grover Cleveland’s life from an airship assault bent on assassination.

 

Mile High Cold – a private detective is framed for a child kidnapping perpetrated by dark forces in an American Western city.

 

 

 

 

Also by John S. Craig