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Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 4 part 3
From the best seat in the Palace, Sterling Sr. crowed, blending in with the tumult around him. “Did you see that move, boy? Blast Off’s calling card: a few straight-out jumps and then a killer right reverse. Sure tumbled ol’ Hank Dixon!” The old man hooted as the fallen rider sought refuge behind the arena…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 4 part 2
Forrest didn’t mind his granddad going off and leaving him with a stranger. That was nothing unusual. But the clucking old hen now attending him was. Forrest couldn’t concentrate with her chatter filling the deserted grandstands. He couldn’t do what he needed to before the performance, because despite what he’d told his best friend, Tom,…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 4 part 1
In Sterling Jackson Sr.’s reckoning, no rodeo except the NFR at Oklahoma City topped the San Francisco Cow Palace’s competition. Though he’d never qualified for the Grand National himself, his son seemed to ride for him. Before the National kicked off, the gaunt, silver-haired rancher would tour the city or its environs. Sterling might stop…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 3 part 2
The musty scent of old hay thickened the air. “Mm.” Alison inhaled deeply. “Barns smell so good, Dad.” Scooping up another armful of hay from the cracked concrete floor, she tossed it above her head and danced underneath. Hay and dust particles floated around her, more visible because of the sunlight showering through one of…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 3 part 1
“I love va-ca-tions! I love va-ca-tions!” Alison sang for the umpteenth time. Feeling as crimped as the new curls in her strawberry-blonde coiffure, Eileen turned to confront her daughter. “Alison, if you yell in this car once more—” The girl seemed to be weighing the punishment against the suspense of not knowing it. “If you…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 2 part 3. Plus: This Fall-en World
Since this last Chapter 2 segment of Chase is so small, below it I’m also posting another updated seasonal vignette originally published in 2020. Betty Rawlings looked across her Bible at the two boys devouring her gingersnaps. “It’s good to see that my reading didn’t affect your appetites.” She tousled Forrest’s hair, then smoothed it…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 2 part 2
As Forrest and Tom daydream of their rodeo futures, the two boys share their hopes and heartaches.
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 2
Eileen insists that Harvey hide his rodeo past from their daughter, but now Alison is planning her future as a world-champion barrel racer with her cousin Jenny. Alison’s aunt and father wonder how the Austin family will ever reconcile the life Al dreams of with the one Eileen desires.
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 1 part 2
Even before watching her first rodeo, nine-year-old Alison Austin dreams of being a beautiful woman on a fast horse, little guessing what such dreams will cost her and those she learns to love.
Constance Colson-Clay 