I asked fellow Midnight Oil anthology contributors to share some things about themselves prior to publication and those generous enough to do so will be appearing here for the next week or so.
Each entry gives a taste of their contribution, a little about them, how to contact them, how their story came about, and definitely a link to Midnight Oil (which you should purchase because it would make each and every one of us happy.
you do want to make us happy, don’t you?
i mean, considering what we wrote, you want us to know you’re a good person, right?).
And now, My The Boy Who Loved Horses:
I was born in a town like this. Mine’s on the eastern ridge and closer to Raleigh. My town had the same dirt roads, the same one-room wooden church, the same old store where you asked for things instead of getting them yourself, the same people but with different faces, the same old men carrying coon rifles, girls getting married when they’re thirteen and younger, having kids before they’re through being kids themselves, the same sense of what’s ours and what’s not. I left my town and got educated. Made it into the extension service. Decided to come back and help others in towns like mine. My education didn’t take all the hill out of me, though. Knew enough to carry a gun in case I got too close to a still. But it did take some of the hill away. I forgot about towns like this.
The wonderful Kaye Lynne Booth also put together a video teaser for The Boy Who Loved Horses
How the story came about:
Susan (wife/partner/Princess) is a long-time equestrian and I often joined her in the barn to care for the horses. That coupled with my many years working with The Wild and domesticated large animals combined with my years working in the Appalachians to bring this story about.
You can learn more than is necessary about me here.
See all Midnight Oil stories here.
And for our finale, a teaser to the anthology
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