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    Dutch's Boy
    Dutch's Boy
    Dutch's Boy
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    Dutch's Boy

    By Xavier Axelson

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    Harry Reynolds spends his days working the family ranch dreaming of the chance to break out on his own and live up to his father Dutch's celebrated rodeo cowboy status. When his chance comes, Harry leaves everything he knows, risking the wrath of his father to find his own success.

    Dreams don't come easy, but supported by the love of his best friend Reb, Harry sets out to find glory and gets a few surprises along the way. Coming of age amid sultry cowboys, huge egos, and wild horses isn't going to be easy, but Harry Reynolds is Dutch's Boy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateSep 10, 2019
    ISBN9781646560059
    Dutch's Boy
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    Xavier Axelson

    Xavier Axelson sold his first short story in 2010 and hasn’t stopped. As a writer-columnist, he has interviewed counterculture celebrities, artisans, singers, writers, performance artists, politicians, and activists. In2012 his first full-length work, Velvet, was released with Seventh Window Publications. Contact him at www.xavieraxelson.com.

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      Dutch's Boy - Xavier Axelson

      Dutch’s Boy

      By Xavier Axelson

      Published by JMS Books LLC at Smashwords

      Visit jms-books.com for more information.

      Copyright 2019 Xavier Axelson

      ISBN 9781646560059

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      Cover Design: Written Ink Designs | written-ink.com

      Image(s) used under a Standard Royalty-Free License.

      All rights reserved.

      WARNING: This book is not transferable. It is for your own personal use. If it is sold, shared, or given away, it is an infringement of the copyright of this work and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

      No portion of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts used for the purposes of review.

      This book is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It may contain sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which might be considered offensive by some readers. Please store your files where they cannot be accessed by minors.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published in the United States of America.

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      To E, who loves this story and lets my wild horses run free, and to Terry, a Texas cowgirl with a fratboy heart.

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      Dutch’s Boy

      By Xavier Axelson

      Chapter 1

      You know Daddy ain’t gonna like you leavin’, Harry’s little sister said as she tossed his socks into the huge army-green duffel bag at the end of his bed.

      Well, Daddy ain’t here and I gotta get to the rodeo if I’m gonna get to ridin’ those broncs. I can’t be sittin’ around waiting for the rain to fall. Sometimes you gotta make it rain, baby girl. Harry began stomping around the floor, imitating a rain dance, making a ruckus with his new boots. His sister started laughing. From down below, they could hear their ma yelling for them to knock it off.

      Still, he ain’t gonna like it, she repeated.

      Harry tossed his old truckers hat at the young girl, just missing her as she managed to get one more pair of socks into his bag before running from his room.

      Damn right he ain’t gonna like it, he mumbled to himself. Shoot…He’s gonna hate it.

      Twenty-year-old Harry Reynolds wished he were like his friends who had started riding broncs while they had all been in middle school. That wasn’t to say Harry didn’t know his way around horses. He could train, shoe, rope, and hell, he even knew about breeding them, but his daddy wasn’t having it.

      His father was Dutch Reynolds, one of the best-known and most well-loved saddle bronc riders in the state and Dutch made it a point to have all his kids familiar with the livestock that roamed on his massive ranch. Dutch, however, had made it clear that Harry was to finish school before he started working the rodeo circuit. He’d told both Harry and his sister Joanna that they were not gonna be like him—no sir, no high school diploma to speak of, forced to work and drop out to help his poor ma who’d never had two nickels to rub together on account of his no-good father. Dutch Reynolds was making sure his kids got an education and if, after they graduated, they wanted the rodeo life for themselves then he wouldn’t stop them.

      Dutch, who was in and out of their lives like summer rainstorms, would say that Hell would have him before he would encourage either child to follow his lead. He came home just long enough to unpack and pack again but not before uttering the same old warning in the direction of his impatient son. "You ain’t ready yet, and that’s my final word. Don’t be getting at your ma about leavin’ for the rodeo, either, or I’ll tan your hide when I get back." Dutch was nothing if he wasn’t strict, and that had left Harry with no room to rebel. Harry would rather face a desert of prickly pears barefoot rather than piss off his father. That wasn’t to say that Harry didn’t often think horrible things about him. He would even go so far as to yell them out in the fields, but when Dutch confronted him, he would fall back into line and begin to wonder if he’d ever be able to break free from the cage of respect and obligation that his father had so carefully wrought.

      He ain’t gonna like it, Harry said again into the back of the old curtains that just barely moved in the already-hot morning air. And I’ve waited long enough—too damn long. Christ, I’m already twenty; I can’t live under his rules forever. Harry was tired of kicking rocks on his father’s ranch and going nowhere with his life. He’d tried community college, to please Dutch, but it hadn’t been for him. His classes had left him unfulfilled and frustrated.

      At first he had let Dutch’s threats knock him down. He had moped

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