Drifting

By Clint Westgard

The rodeo is over and Dane and Colton are on the run.

They flee down back country roads in the dead of night with the law in hot pursuit. All over a woman lost and a dream beginning to sour.

Neither the past nor the law can be escaped though, as they will both soon discover. And the consequences will be fatal.

A story of two modern day cowboys gone astray on a long night.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lost Quarter Books
• Release date: Oct 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9780991928798

Clint Westgard

Clint Westgard is the author of The Shadow Men Trilogy and the science fiction epic The Sojourner Cycle, the first volume of which, The Forgotten, was published in 2015. In addition, he has published a work of historical fantasy set in colonial Peru, The Masks of Honor, and a retelling of the Minotaur legend, The Trials of the Minotaur. Clint Westgard lives in Calgary, Alberta.

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DRIFTING

CLINT WESTGARD

Drifting

Published by Lost Quarter Books

Drifting by Clint Westgard is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.  

ISBN: 9780991928798

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The Bull-a-Rama was over; the stock already loaded into trailers and on their way back to the Hertel Brothers Ranch, while the tented area behind the stands was in the process of being cleared out for the dance. Dane finished the beer he was drinking, crushing the can underneath his boot heel and throwing it away, while waving at the other cowboys who were gathered behind the corrals drinking and waiting for the dance to start. He headed off across the rodeo grounds, around the stands and towards the RV Park filled with trucks and campers.

Hey babe, he said when he found her trailer, tucked in with several others around a small stand of trees. She squinted at him without responding as he plopped himself down on the picnic table beside the trailer.

You reek, she said, How many you had so far?

Emma, he said.

You gotta drive to Maple Creek tonight.

He shook his head and took out his can of Copenhagen. Nah, he said, We're going first thing tomorrow. Colton thinks he's got a line on some girl.

Emma rolled her eyes. You both better not get too out of hand then. You're gonna have to get up pretty early to make it for the draw.

Only five thirty, he said. Besides, don't you want to spend a night with your man?

She squinted at him again, but sat on the knee he