num_pages: 24
description: Skull, Kansas Territory, 1859.It has been said that Skull contains a stairway that leads straight to Hell. Hunter must descend the passage to save Catherine, an innocent girl taken to the bowels of another realm. Passage into the nether-realm is the least of Hunter’s concerns as he also faces a town willing to sacrifice the lives of “sinners” in the name of prosperity. Is the life of one person worth the price? Reverend Hugo Jasper Wiggins is beginning to wonder. A story of guilt, justice, and absolution set in the wild Frontier. Badlands: Descent is an approximately 6,500-word short story that introduces readers to Hunter, the main character of the upcoming Badlands novel series. This story is the fifth of six leading to the premiere of the first novel Badlands: Comes the Hunter.Advisory: This story contains descriptions of violence, discretion advised.
language: English
title: Badlands: Descent
publisher: Cracked Shell Publishing