Category: Fiction
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What? Another newsletter? Yes, it’s been three months.
The quarterly Patrick Dorn Author Newsletter just dropped today. It’s available only to subscribers. If you’d like to receive occasional updates on my writing and receive a FREE play or story, sign up. You can always unsubscribe. How else will you find out the latest info on my weird westerns, Catholic supernatural fantasy, and one-act…
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A brawling Jesuit, a crusty seaman, and a skinless selkie walk onto a pier…
Here’s a new short story. It’s part of the slowly expanding “Holy Heretics” series I’m developing. A Jesuit priest fights a crusty seaman on a Monterey, California pier in 1876, going overboard to return a priceless sea lion pelt to its rightful owner. But when Father Julian plunges into the briny deep, who will save…
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A werewolf, and a priest, and a curse unleashed
My latest short story is now available on Amazon-Kindle, all other e-book platforms, and also paperback! A desperate and volatile werewolf enlists Father Declan’s aid in breaking the curse that’s killing his wife. Set in Kinnitty, Clareen, and the Slieve Bloom Mountains in County Offaly, this thrilling and romantic supernatural tale is steeped in legend…
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Malodorous peat faeries and cattle mutilation
My latest Father Declan Supernatural Mystery short story just launched! It’s available as an e-book on all digital platforms, and there’s also a paperback version. I love writing these stories! Invasion of the Ballybogs Father Declan O’Shea, a Franciscan friar with the spiritual gift of Insight, investigates a bizarre cattle mutilation in County Carlow, Ireland.…
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Legendary cave man abducts a girl, and three unlikely heroes come to the rescue
The Ugliest Man in Albuquerque READ FREE on Kindle Unlimited. When the legendary Hairy Man abducts a teenage girl from her Quinceañera, a Dominican priest, a German muleskinner, and a lovesick young tailor mount a rescue mission. Their pursuit takes the unlikely heroes into the steep and treacherous Sandia Mountains above Albuquerque. This is a…
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Gold Faever, a Weird Western short story, now available
Gold Faever READ FREE on Kindle Unlimited Dandy Danny Sheehan is raking in a fortune, thanks to his Pot o’ Gold Saloon in the remote California Gold Rush town of Downieville. But when feisty Sister Bedelia steps through his batwing doors to take up a collection for an orphanage, it will take more than the…
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Western Horror Short Story: ‘Thin Skinned’
Read FREE on Kindle Unlimited Thin Skinned: a short story of a woman’s revenge in the West By Patrick Dorn 5 out of 5 stars Revenge is best served…. By Amazon Customer on April 27, 2016 Thin Skinned was delicious! A perfect journey of the macabre… I was left surprised and satisfied. In the barren, unforgiving desert outside…
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Fiction Update: Weird Western series in the works
I’m currently developing a series of short stories in the Weird Western genre. The tales will take place around 1780, during the California Mission period, and involve cryptozoological (creature of the week) storylines. My hero is Otto Eisenschaf, a Hessian mercenary who lost his left hand and part of his arm in the first battle…
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Fiction: The Bunny and the Big Black Dog
Dear Readers: After the catastrophic loss of all my website data a couple weeks ago, I’ve started re-posting some of my most popular posts. Please feel free to share this story with others. THE BUNNY AND THE BIG BLACK DOG (Based on an actual event, as refined through theological reflection) By Patrick Dorn Early one cloudy…