Half Past Nine

By DB Jackson

An old cowboy, Clayton Todd, and a teenage boy, Bobby Earl Lee, take a ride out into the West Texas desert. Bobby, known as Early, assumes it will be a relaxing day with an old friend. What Early doesn’t know is Clayton does not plan to return.
It’s a poignant and heartwarming story of an old man at the end of his life and a kid at the beginning of his, and the moments they share coming to terms with knowing there will be no tomorrow to deal with things unsaid.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DB Jackson
• Release date: Apr 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463096161

DB Jackson

Award winning novelist and screenwriter.

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HALF PAST NINE

A Short Story

Copyright 2019 DB Jackson

Published by DB Jackson at Smashwords

ISBN 978-0-463-09616-1

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SMALL MOVING PARTS – A novel set in 1958 West Texas. Literary fiction.

A BAND OF UNBROKE HORSES – A reissue of the award winning novel, UNBROKE HORSES.

WIND RIVER INCIDENT – The screenplay reissued version of the award winning novel, THEY RODE GOOD HORSES.

HALF PAST NINE – A short story and inspiration for a feature film of the same name.

THE COLLECTOR – A short story.

THE OXBOW WOLVES – A short story.

BLOOD RED MOON – A short story.

THE OUTRIDER – A short story.

THE BUFFALO RUNNERS – A short story.

HALF PAST NINE - Clayton and Early

THE OLD MAN, his arthritic fingers twisted and knotted by years and hard miles, fumbled with the drawstring on the small cotton sack of tobacco he held in his left hand. When he got it open, both hands shook, the paper rattled and, when he tapped out the tobacco, it scattered in the wind.

He sat on