Deadeye

by Jake Kerr

In this searing short story, Kerr takes steampunk conventions--alternate history, airship battles, and even an invention of Nicola Tesla--and weaves them into a highly personal tale of a soldier looking for redemption.

Deadeye is the tale of "Deadeye" Wolfson, a decorated civil war soldier making his way home to see his ill father. But a simple trip is complicated by contraband, his fame, and an air battle where Wolfson's life is changed forever.

30 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 9, 2011

About the author

After fifteen years as a music industry journalist Jake Kerr's first published story, "The Old Equations," was nominated for the Nebula Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America and was shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon and StorySouth Million Writers awards. His stories have subsequently been published in magazines across the world, broadcast in multiple podcasts, and been published in multiple anthologies and year's best collections.

A graduate of Kenyon College, Kerr studied fiction under Ursula K. Le Guin and Peruvian playwright Alonso Alegria. He lives in Dallas, Texas, with his family and a menagerie of pets.