Jean McKinney
Bio
Writer and artist reporting back from the places where the mundane meets the magical, with new stories and poems every week. Creator of the fantasy worlds of the Moon Road and Sorrows Hill. Learn more and get a free story at my LinkTree.
Stories (20/0)
Argentine and the Man in Black
In that twilight hour between supper and the start of the night, Maggie’s girls drape themselves preening over the creamy velvet of her couches, like well-fed cats in dressing gowns. It’s the lull before the evening rush, when the cowhands and the miners crowd into Meridian, looking to drink the night away, maybe drop a day’s pay between the scented sheets of Maggie’s cathouse.
By Jean McKinney6 days ago in Fiction
Wild Cards
Sixkiller feels like a blind man for a minute, stepping out of July sunlight into the reeking shadows of the cantina called Dos Portales. Breathing smells of leather and sweat and warm beer, he waits for his eyes to adjust to the dark so he can find the man he came to kill.
By Jean McKinney23 days ago in Fiction
Sleep Tight, Shaggy Maggie
Down on Broad Street, the crackheads drift like dirty wraiths through the ruins of their burned out squats and homeless men in baggy jackets push shopping carts full of soda cans past the shattered windows of dead stores. It’s an autumn midnight and the bars are closing, so the hookers lean against chipped brick walls here on the fringes of downtown, one eye out for business and the other out for the cops.
By Jean McKinney2 months ago in Fiction