The Ranch Hand

by Will Richards

Patrick is eighteen and ready to go off to college. He decides to spend the summer out on a ranch, and hitchhikes out west. He ends up in a dusty town somewhere out in the middle of nowhere, staying for the night at the only place, a little motel. He goes to the one bar in town and asks around for work. He meets some ranch hands, and they tell him they are looking for another ranch hand out on the ranch where they work. They size him up, wondering if he’ll be able to handle it, recognizing in him the soft hands and tender flesh of a city boy. They tell him where to come to the next day, and what time, and he agrees. Anyway, he is out of money, and they will pay pretty well. And a job is a job, right? That's what he thinks, but he soon finds that these men had other plans for him. He is soon a slave to men, and loving it.

26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 13, 2016