Colin Winnette

haints stay

“In his astonishing portrait of American violence, Haints Stay, Colin Winnette makes use of the Western genre to stunning effect... His knack for tapping into scenes of primal fear and poetic violence serves as an indictment of our species' base nature and worst instincts.”

—Los Angeles Times

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Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them while between towns. For miles, there is only desert and wilderness, and along the fringes, people.

The story follows the middling bounty hunters after they’ve been chased from town, and Bird, each in pursuit of their own sense of belonging and justice. It features gunfights, cannibalism, barroom piano, a wagon train, a stampede, and the tenuous rise of the West's first one-armed gunslinger.

Haints Stay is a new Acid Western in the tradition of Rudolph Wurlitzer, Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff, and Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man: meaning it is brutal, surreal, and possesses an unsettling humor.

Haints Stay is currently out of print.

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