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    Gold Faever: Weird Tales of Old California
    Gold Faever: Weird Tales of Old California
    Gold Faever: Weird Tales of Old California
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    Gold Faever: Weird Tales of Old California

    By Patrick Dorn

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    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 luck of the Irish to keep the wily Leprechaun from losing his greatest treasure. 

    This is a light-hearted Weird Western short story with a Catholic twist. Approximately 5,200 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatrick Dorn
    Release dateMar 7, 2019
    ISBN9781386422464
    Gold Faever: Weird Tales of Old California
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    Patrick Dorn

    Patrick Dorn used to write weird westerns set in Old California, New Mexico, and Colorado, but then he visited Ireland. Now his supernatural fiction alternates between The West and The Emerald Isle, but is always, always weird. He's also an Anglican priest and a full-time chaplain. Check out Patrick's blog, stories, plays, musicals, children's books, and more at www.PatrickDorn.com. You can reach him at Patrick@PatrickDorn.com

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      Gold Faever - Patrick Dorn

      Gold Faever

      Gold Faever

      Downieville, California 1855

      Patrick Dorn

      Copyright © 2017 by Patrick Dorn

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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      Gold Faever

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      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 luck of the Irish to keep the wily Leprechaun from losing his greatest treasure. This is a light-hearted Weird Western short story with a Catholic twist. Approximately 5,200 words. Rated G.

      Gold Faever

      Downieville, California 1855

      By Patrick Dorn

      For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36)

      Downieville, California, 1855

      For a Tuesday night, business was booming at the Pot o’ Gold Saloon. Dandy Danny Sheehan, proprietor, couldn’t have been happier.

      Danny perched on the edge of his tall stool and surveyed the faro table from his favorite spot on the landing. He savored the clink of gold tokens in play. He

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