(This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.)
How to Communicate with Horses, 2nd Edition
Word
count: 350
Genre:
Adventure
Character:
A daydreamer
Material:
A cowboy hat
Sentence:
“Never.”
Bonus:
Your character has a world-changing idea.
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Jeb
removed his cowboy hat to scratch his earlobe. Where would his dad
leave the book? He had a vague memory of what it might look like. His
dad read the same book every evening when he was younger, but he
never knew what book it was. Usually if he had come down after he was
supposed to be sleeping, his dad would tuck it into the couch so he
couldn't see it. It had to be the same book. But where would it be?
A
task he had been putting off was to clean out his dad's pick-up so he
could sell it. He would keep it for nostalgia's sake, but he had just
gotten a new truck last year and having two seemed excessive.
Besides, his dad's old pick-up with parked next to the horse barn.
The white pick-up with the orange stripe was straight out of his
childhood. The Colonel would be something he'd never part with. After
clearing out the newer one, a thought dawned on him.
He
went over to the Colonel, peering through her dirty window. Something
seemed jammed down next to the clutch. Rubbing the window with his
thumb and spit, he peered closer. It was a book! He popped open the
door and reached in. Blowing the dust off the book, he saw the title:
“How
to Communicate with Horses, 2nd Edition”
He
couldn't believe it! Running back into the house, he sat down with a
cup of coffee and began to pour over the book. The day passed with a
blur. Night fell. On he read straight through till morning.
“Well,
I...” he paused speechless, “...never!”
He
decided to put the theories and lessons into practice. Sure enough,
his best mare began to discuss her world with him.
Ecstatic,
he took her for a ride. She described the colors, the sky, what she
heard, how it felt to canter. In awe, he considered the ways that he
could use this to better his horse-handlers. Rehabilitating these
horses was his life's passion. Right here was the opportunity of a
lifetime.
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