Pulp Modern Number Four features my latest Cash Laramie story, "Merciless." This hardboiled post-western follows the Outlaw Marshal into the 1920s. Cash still lives in Cheyenne but the town around him has changed and not for the better. Men are soft and the beer is watered down. Then, to top it off, the seventy-year-old Cash is challenged by a young upstart who knocks down the famed lawman in the saloon he's frequented for the last quarter century. With a bruised ego, Cash limps home to an unloving girlfriend who's been hounding him to sell his memoirs for a few dollars. What's left? Well, a final showdown between the 'civilized' world and a man who knows how to be merciless. This story may be the last chronologically for Cash Laramie. I had a helluva lot of fun writing it with gracious help from Chuck Tyrell. And thanks to editor Alec Cizak.
8 comments:
That sounds fantastic. I'll be picking this up for the Laramie story alone. Can't wait to read it.
When I was reading your synopsis I was reminded of a story by Lewis B. Patten called "The Winter of Life" which has the same theme of a lawman at the end of his days.
And, oh yeah, congrats on the publication!! :) I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached.
Whew! The title of your piece scared me ... Nobody's ready for the last of Cash.
Wow what a come on. Gotta read this.
Thanks, Heath.
Sandra, A common theme. I tried to add an ending that I don't think very many traditional western writers would pen. Of course, nothing new under the sun. :)
As long as Wayne D. Dundee will write Cash Laramie adventures there will be more tales of the Outlaw Marshal.
Thanks for stopping by Charles.
Cash could still come back later as a vampire, right? Be nice to see him kicking some butt in the present.
Thanks for sharing this era of the Cash saga with Pulp Modern, David.
Respectfully, I'd rather not see the Outlaw Marshal as a vampire!
(or a zombie, for that matter)
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