Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West
Table of Contents
Front Matter BOOK 1: SHOWDOWN Last Stand The Signpost Smelling Trouble Answering the Call Slinger's Apprentice Pine Boxes Baptism of Fire Showdown Dead Book BOOK 2: VICE & VIRTUE Coffee The Posse Nightfall Gunslinger's Work Marks of Cain BOOK 3: THE VIGIL The Posse Splits Up On the Road Laughing Bear Nightmares Home The Lodge The River Unquiet Dead The Vigil BOOK 4: WAY OF THE GUN Waiting Celebration Too Quiet Bandits Hide-and-Seek Getting Help Thunderstorm Rumble in the Kitchen Slingers Always Get the Chance BOOK 5: THE REAPING The Posse Rides Shooting Gallery Gadgets and Specters Dowsing Dusk Falls The Cotton Candy Man It Never Is BOOK 6: THE WIDOW'S GAMBIT The Widow A Message Northern Lights Blood Magic The Courtesan Single-Malt and Cigar Ghosts of Murdered Children Red-Eye Outpost Spectres The Judge The Apprentice The Fence A Gunslinger's Gift ~About the Author~ ~Also by the Author~Front Matter
ONCE UPON A TIME
IN THE WYRD WEST
Wyrd West Chronicles
A Fantasy Western Serial Novel
By Diane Morrison
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events or locales is purely coincidental.
© 2017, 2018 by Diane Morrison
http://www.dianemorrisonfiction.com
Aradia Publishing
5583 Silver Star Rd.
Vernon, BC Canada V1B 3P7
Cover Design: Diane Morrison
Interior Design: Diane Morrison & Katje van Loon
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a newspaper, magazine, website, or journal.
Showdown
First electronic edition: March 2017. ISBN 978-0-9959276-0-5
Vice & Virtue
First electronic edition: May 2017. ISBN 978-0-9959276-1-2
The Vigil
First electronic edition: July 2017. ISBN 978-0-9959276-2-9
Way of the Gun
First electronic edition: October 2017. ISBN 978-0-9959276-4-3
The Reaping
First electronic edition: December 2017. ISBN 978-0-9959276-5-0
The Widow’s Gambit
First electronic edition: February 2018. ISBN 978-0-9959276-6-7
National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Morrison, Diane 1975—
Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West / Diane Morrison
Serial Novel
ISBN 978-0-9959276-9-8
- Title 2. Serial Novel 3. Fantasy Fiction, Canadian 4. Western stories 5. Science fiction, Canadian 6. Dystopias 7. Steampunk fiction 8. Short stories, Canadian—Canada, Western 9. Saskatchewan—Fiction 10. Fantasy Adventure 11. Regression (Civilization)—Fiction
Acknowledgements
No writer truly writes alone. I would like to thank the Vernon Writer’s Critique Group for helping me to formulate my story into something greater than the sum of its parts. I would like to thank my beta readers for their extremely helpful feedback. I would like to thank the indie authors’ community, especially the ladies of the Vegas Fight Club, for being so supportive and welcoming. Most of all, I would like to thank my partner and editor Jamie for his hard work and his bravery in taking me on, and my husband Erin for his unrelenting love and support.
Patrons & Backers
This book was published in part with the help of my Patrons and Kickstarter Backers! Special thanks to: Alan & Jeremy VS. Science Fiction, An Angell’s Life, Jean-Pierre Ardoguein, Michael Baker, Kate and Andrew Barton, Kent Böettner, Cyndi Brannen, Sarah Buhrman, Robin Cahill, Courtney Cannon, Donalda Cassel, Joshua C. Chadd, Serena J. Fleming, The Creative Fund, Ivo Dominguez Jr., Eryn Driscoll, Robert E. Easton, S.A. Gibson, David Holley, Stephen Hunt, JennQKW, Kedrix, Andrew T. Kuligowski, Dawn Dianna Landry, Sionainn E. McCann, Bonnie Milani, Lanette Miller, Scott Mohnkern, Isabella Mori, Amy J. Murphy, G Man No, Eugene Plawiuk, David Pollard, Kevin Purtell, Reading Indie, Gualter Reis, Joshua Robertson, J.I. Rogers, Selene Shiro, Derek Devereaux Smith, D. Kevin Stilwell Jr., Katje Van Loon, Robert Walters, Astrid Winegar, Dominic Wheeler, Casey June Wolf, and Judith Wouk. Thank you so much!
Dedications
Showdown
For my mom, for many things, but mostly for giving me the gift of a lifetime of joy in reading.
Vice & Virtue
For my son Dan, who inspires me to be a better person.
The Vigil
For Tamara, who believed in me before anyone else did.
Way of the Gun
For Steve, for putting up with my shit.
The Reaping
For the crazy-as-I-am people who do NaNoWriMo every November.
The Widow’s Gambit
For Jamie and Erin. They know why.
Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West
For Blue, who was my Sandy.
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