Ranch Stories

It was a hot summer day as I was driving down a small road, passing by endlessly long fields deep in the countryside. I was pretty sure that I had made a wrong turn at some point, this possibly couldn’t be the right route to the city where a friend of mine had recently moved to, but according to google maps I was on the right road, so I kept going.  I hadn’t seen a single car nor a person in a long time, just fields after...

Rain pelted the roof of the barn with vengeance. Somewhere out there, the moon was high in the sky. Thunder rumbled in the distance as lightening threatened the tall trees. The wind whistled and howled violently against the walls. This has been one of the worst storms I can remember. I remember well because that was the night I became a father. My wife, Vesi, had been going through labor most of the afternoon. The farmer’...

The sun was beginning to set on a Thursday behind a sky full of bright pink and orange clouds. The tree line began to hide the direct rays. The tall and thick trees were like a forest, dark and forbidding. In this part of Australia, everything has a mystery to it… *** My name is Vesi Jhori Shaeria. I know it’s not a name you often find. It is Elvin for Pure Life Warriors. I guess my parents had a sense of humor? I like my...