Dragon by the Bay

It's 1866. The Civil War is over and no-account grifter Carson Lowe pays a visit to the bustling Gold Rush city of San Francisco. But instead of quick riches he finds big trouble in and under a fledgling Chinatown, when a Taoist immortal threatens to wake the ... Dragon by the Bay! Is it a western? Or a kung fu story with all the earth-shaking action of a Shaw Brothers' flick? It's both, as well as a homage to John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China. Weighing in at 22K words, this lean novelette delivers a fistful of East on West mayhem sure to crack a few smiles-and ribs-before it's over.