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 (22/0)
In Santa Cruz
In Santa Cruz, the border is only a breath away. On these burning summer nights, stormclouds gather after sunset and the road spins out snakebelly white between Tombstone and Nogales. Taking those empty curves through the grasslands you lean had on the gas because . . .
By Jean McKinneya day ago in Poets
Argentine and the Man in Black
Part one of two: 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 McKinney16 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 McKinneyabout a month ago in Fiction