Tag: Adrian Van Young

  • “The Burial Party”: Vol. 9 Original Fiction by Adrian Van Young

    “The Burial Party”: Vol. 9 Original Fiction by Adrian Van Young

    The Burial Party In her invalid’s bunk on the steamer Virginia, the Nurse cannot stop throwing up. When the boat is in motion, it does not afflict her. She could stand on the prow with her face in the wind. But when the steamboat lies at anchor in the hot airlessness of the day, churning…

  • “Ruidoso, Carrizozo, Ruidoso”: Short Fiction by Adrian Van Young

    “Ruidoso, Carrizozo, Ruidoso”: Short Fiction by Adrian Van Young

    Ruidoso, Carrizozo, Ruidoso Billy Sue Dolan was from Ruidoso, one town in a hundred New Mexico towns. Except Ruidoso was in Lincoln County, the most violent part of that desolate state, where William McCarty or William H. Bonney or Billy the Kid, he would come to be known for the twenty-one men he’d reportedly slain,…