Long Way to Richmond

*Features short story "Fingers" by Joseph Rubas.* Long Way to Richmond is a strange and off-beat tale of post-apocalyptic 1869, where muskets and gaslight streetlamps exist side-by-side with modern-day designs, such as the television and the automobile. The story follows a Confederate soldier making his way home to Virginia, when he begins having strange dreams of a demonic creature… A viral plague exists to ravish existence… Meanwhile, a horrifying figure begins gathering survivors in Richmond in hopes of wiping out the human race… And with it all, we get a brief glimpse at the horrors that come with Long Way to Richmond. Featuring historical figures, such as John Wilkes Booth and Jefferson Davis, in roles that play them against the atypical archetype history has come to know them as. In the short story Fingers, gunslinger Willie Beaker has just executed the three-fingered outlaw John Farris. With the Farris’s body on the back of his horse and headed to Oklahoma to collect the bounty that’s going to make him rich, Beaker begins noticing something is strangely awry, as the three-fingered corpse has mysteriously grown the missing fingers back, making for five – putting the gunslinger’s bounty at risk. The lengths Willie is willing to go to secure his bounty is a stretch straight into a surreal situation that not even the reader will see coming. Author Joseph Rubas handles his material like a crazed madman, aiming to take his readers on a ride through the horrors of history, as dictated by his own direction, which is everywhere but straight. This read will appeal to fans of horror, history and the absolute strange/bizarre – like reading Stephen King through a kaleidoscope of black comedy and strange terrors.

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