A Blood Red Moon

By DB Jackson

Levi Jennings, a fifteen-year old preacher’s son, is kidnapped by two escaped convicts who execute his parents and take him hostage. The events that ensue threaten to be the undoing of both the boy and his captors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DB Jackson
• Release date: Apr 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463020227

DB Jackson

Award winning novelist and screenwriter.

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A BLOOD RED MOON

A Short Story

Copyright 2019 DB Jackson

Published by DB Jackson at Smashwords

ISBN 978-0-463-xxxxx-x

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A BAND OF UNBROKE HORSES – A reissue of the award winning novel, UNBROKE HORSES.

WIND RIVER INCIDENT – The screenplay reissued version of the award winning novel, THEY RODE GOOD HORSES.

HALF PAST NINE – A short story and inspiration for a feature film of the same name.

THE COLLECTOR – A short story.

THE OXBOW WOLVES – A short story.

BLOOD RED MOON – A short story.

THE OUTRIDER – A short story.

THE BUFFALO RUNNERS – A short story.

A BLOOD RED MOON

JOHN PAUL RIGGINS rode with his back to a wind that blew down from the North Country careening through thinly treed granite passes like some errant freight train racing the long shadows of a dying day. He turned in the saddle and checked the carcass of the deer, gutted and field-dressed, and slung across the back of his packhorse with nothing to cover it but its own hide, haired-out and ready for winter.

A sky, the color