Dr Potter's Medicine Show

Eric Scott Fischl

The year is 1878.

Dr. Alexander Potter, disgraced Civil War surgeon, now huckster and seller of snake-oil, travels the wet roads of the Pacific Northwest with a disheartened company of strongmen, illusionists, fortunetellers, and musical whores. Under the quiet command of the mysterious, merciless, and murderous Lyman Rhoades, they entertain the masses while hawking the Chock-a-saw Sagwa Tonic, a vital elixir touted to cure all ills both physical and spiritual... although, for a few unfortunate customers, the Sagwa offers something much, much worse.

For drunken dentist Josiah McDaniel, the Sagwa has taken everything from him; in the hired company of two accidental outlaws, the bickering brothers Solomon Parker and Agamemnon Rideout, he looks to revenge himself on the Elixir’s creator: Dr. Morrison Hedwith, businessman, body-thief, and secret alchemist, a man who is running out of time.

Published
February 6, 2017
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Eric Scott Fischl

Reader, writer, lapsed musician, and history enthusiast Eric Fischl spent a peripatetic childhood in Tripoli (Libya), Texas, and Wyoming, followed by a long stay in Portland, Oregon. After attaining his undergraduate degree in music composition, Eric set about paying off his massive student loans with a career in an entirely unrelated field. He currently lives in the Bitterroot Mountains south of Missoula, Montana, where he balances creative endeavours with his day job managing the technology group for a conservation-focused nonprofit.