Shearers

By Wayne Mansfield

Stuart is eighteen, but more boy than man. When his uncle offers him a job rousabouting in the shearing shed during his mid-year break from university, he has no idea what to expect. He’s always been more of an indoors kind of guy.

He knows he’ll be working with some pretty rough men. Men who work the shearing circuit, going from farm to farm shearing sheep until there are no more sheep left to shear. His only hope is to try and fit in.

As it turns out, he has no choice. His uncle has arranged for him to share a room in the shearer’s quarters with one of the shearers. The very idea makes Stuart, who has always been unsure of himself and insecure, want to back out of the whole deal and return to town, to the comfort of home. But he doesn’t. He is determined to bite the proverbial bullet.

The work is hard and Stuart does his best. The shearing shed is a place where a man has to prove himself; to show what he’s made of. Does Stuart have what it takes? What will he learn about himself in the process? About life? About shearers?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Jun 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781611525977

Wayne Mansfield

Wayne Mansfield is a Western Australian writer. He has been writing for nine years and has been published in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Additionally, he wrote a monthly erotic story for the German publications Macho and Dreamboys for two years. His novellas and stories usually have a horror, futuristic, or fantasy theme, although he does write contemporary stories such as The Hiding Place, which received Honorable Mention in the 2013 Rainbow Awards.

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Shearers

By Wayne Mansfield

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Shearers

By Wayne Mansfield

It was hard, back-breaking work in the shearing shed. No-one had it easy. The three shearers in their navy blue singlets—referred to as ‘wife-beaters’—and thick, navy work jeans spent the day dragging sheep from the pen and shearing them as fast as they could, each of them keeping count of how many they’d done. After every inch of wool had been shorn off, the bewildered creatures, stark white and some with crimson lines where the shearer’s blade had shaved a little too close, were sent sliding down a chute into an outdoor pen.

I had barely turned eighteen. I was a pale, skinny boy. All cock and ribs. And while I wouldn’t win any muscle man competitions I was, if I say so myself, very good looking. My black hair, pale skin and deep blue eyes had garnered for me many invitations to dinner and to dances. The only problem was that these invitations were invariably from girls,