Western fiction, plainly told
Hank Redding
Stories about the moment a system decides so a person doesn’t have to.
Towns, ranches, and people at the edge of what they’re allowed to decide for themselves. Restraint over spectacle. 39 stories are free to read here.
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Gerald
Twenty-six years after he walked out on his daughter, a sober man returns to the river where they once caught crawdads.
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The Reckoning of Silver Butte: a town ruled by fear, and a stranger who rides in ahead of a storm.
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Why these stories were held back for years, and why they are out now.
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The books
Novels and novellas: some free, some on Kindle Unlimited.
The Weight of the Record
The Last Good Rope
The Reckoning of Silver Butte
What Was Carried West
The Settled Dust
Dust Will Tell
Open stories
Literary Western short stories, free to read online. New ones as they’re finished.
Where the River Narrows
The Quiet Year
Held to Account
The Bend in the Current
After Mackinac City
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