Riding High

By Dale Chase

Young Roy Shuster served five years in the Yuma, Arizona, prison, and when he’s released on December 24, 1889, he revels in freedom at last. A local man, an ex-convict, takes him in and teaches him lovemaking.

But Ray can’t abide the prison’s proximity and moves on to Tombstone where, despite a growing interest in a rancher named Clay Bowman, he causes more trouble than good. Can Clay see past Roy’s youthful impulsiveness, even when it lands him in jail?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Dec 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781611528657

Dale Chase

Dale Chase started out writing fiction for motorcycle magazines, then wandered into gay erotica over a decade ago and found a home. Since then she has had nearly 150 stories published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including translation into Italian and German. Her sole literary effort was published in the Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly and her only non-fiction, Straight Pen For Gay Men, appeared in the Gay & Lesbian Review. Her next story collection, The Company He Keeps: Victorian Gentlemen’s Erotica, is due from Bold Strokes Books in 2011. Dale is also a lifelong artist.

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Riding High

By Dale Chase

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Riding High

By Dale Chase

The Yuma Prison warden made light of my release on December 24, 1889. A fine Christmas present, he said.

I wanted to remind him I’d done my time so there was no gift about it, but in my five years inside his hell hole I’d learned to keep my mouth shut. Yes, sir, I said.

You stay out of trouble, Roy Shuster, he counseled.

Yes, sir.

You can go now.

At last I was out of prison duds, wearing new pants, shirt, and coat, but still in prison issue boots and without any hat. Or gun, of course. I felt somewhat light in going about without pistol and rig, but knew I’d best get used to it.

When I walked into Yuma proper, a town of little consequence, but paradise to me, I knew folks would spot me being a released convict because getting on the other side of the walls doesn’t take away the look of a man who’s been inside.