“He drove along the peaks and valleys of the Sourland Mountains, tight in the cocoon of his highly tuned imported racing machine. The hardwood forests whipped past his windows. The spawning foliage blurred his sightlines and tented his thoughts. He slowed his car outside Taddler’s Horse Center. Purple and white violets peppered the sprawling lawns. He retracted the car roof and studied the corrals and barns from a distance. He’d stopped three times that week, but today, a gentle breeze pushed th...e scent of horses, trodden earth, and straw-covered manure to the roadside. He decided to pull up the driveway. A dozen horses strolled the western paddock. Jerry counted the trailers lined up for the weekend horse show. Wasn’t this the life he wanted? Hadn’t he dreamt of this before striking it rich? A barrier existed between his poverty and wealth, between his past and present. It created a myth of his past, which was now as fleeting and hard to prove as a lie. He tried to trace his fantasies to the other side, but they were impossible to imagine when they became reality with the mere tearing out of a bank check.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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