Saddle the Wind
by Ron Shears
Price: $4.95 USD. 33060 words.
Published on April 12, 2011. Fiction.
Lightning strikes: a steeple, a saddled horse with two riders, another below, all vanish into the darkness. Now immortal roaming Dartmoor, scorch marks on their backs. A scorched saddle crashes into Buckfast’s Abbey roof.
Enter this rugged place of myths and legends. for across the mists may come, the faint echoes of hoof beats of a phantom horse and rider, fighting to right an ancient wrong.
Location: Australia
Member Since: Feb. 23, 2011
Ron Shears
Biography
Born 1935, in Kent England Served 6-year indentured apprenticeship as a Compositor, Typographer. Top sportsman, played in a semi-pro league as an amateur, declined turning pro, meant breaking apprenticeship. Played for Kent youth, I won't bore you with the other sports I ranked highly in.
Quit print after 11 years to start his own roof tiling and slating business. Lost the lot-a fortune to bad debts, when Saudi oil minister Yamani quadrupled oil price in four days, builders large and small went broke taking me with them. Apparently and unknown to me I was the largest roofing outfit in South West England.
Some years later migrated to Australia. Broke, started again doing building site laboring work to support family, started writing to keep sane.
At 54 diagnosed with severe asthma. Son suggested a martial art, At 57 I did, nearly killed me, kept puffy in my hand. Asthma almost gone, Recommend any asthmatics make your lungs earn their keep.
He trains and teaches at Tae Kwon Do in Australia he is a 4th Dan and has trained extensively in 2 other martial arts.
He lives in Australia with his wife. They have a daughter, two sons and eight grand children.
He enjoys: writing, made all of the pine furniture for his house and stacks more for his daughter His unique and original one off compositions from his collection of old letterpress Hardwood Type can be seen at: http://www.ronshears.com/. It’s an incomplete web page but there’s some stuff there. Or google Flickr search Letterpress Type or Crunkhorn, there is pile there.
Other work by the author includes: completed screenplays and stories, in various lengths and genres. Unless otherwise stated all are the authors ideas and concepts. Screenplays are co-written with Aimee Lamb. As you will see there is a mountain of writing here, and at my age I decided to ‘get’ these written, and could not have done so with out Aimee Lamb.
Passionate about our planet and it's wildlife from small insects to the Blue Whale. Writes letters to papers, several articles printed. Believes we should delete the word 'Retirement' from all languages.
Quit print after 11 years to start his own roof tiling and slating business. Lost the lot-a fortune to bad debts, when Saudi oil minister Yamani quadrupled oil price in four days, builders large and small went broke taking me with them. Apparently and unknown to me I was the largest roofing outfit in South West England.
Some years later migrated to Australia. Broke, started again doing building site laboring work to support family, started writing to keep sane.
At 54 diagnosed with severe asthma. Son suggested a martial art, At 57 I did, nearly killed me, kept puffy in my hand. Asthma almost gone, Recommend any asthmatics make your lungs earn their keep.
He trains and teaches at Tae Kwon Do in Australia he is a 4th Dan and has trained extensively in 2 other martial arts.
He lives in Australia with his wife. They have a daughter, two sons and eight grand children.
He enjoys: writing, made all of the pine furniture for his house and stacks more for his daughter His unique and original one off compositions from his collection of old letterpress Hardwood Type can be seen at: http://www.ronshears.com/. It’s an incomplete web page but there’s some stuff there. Or google Flickr search Letterpress Type or Crunkhorn, there is pile there.
Other work by the author includes: completed screenplays and stories, in various lengths and genres. Unless otherwise stated all are the authors ideas and concepts. Screenplays are co-written with Aimee Lamb. As you will see there is a mountain of writing here, and at my age I decided to ‘get’ these written, and could not have done so with out Aimee Lamb.
Passionate about our planet and it's wildlife from small insects to the Blue Whale. Writes letters to papers, several articles printed. Believes we should delete the word 'Retirement' from all languages.