Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Rider On The Storm
    Rider On The Storm
    Rider On The Storm
    Ebook18 pages18 minutes

    Rider On The Storm

    By Darrel Bird

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    A teen goes wild when his father is killed in a bar room brawl, he causes the death of the man responsible, then takes the life of another men, he embraces the biker gang until he attempts to steal the bike of an immoveable Vietnam vet.

    **Please review this book**

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarrel Bird
    Release dateMay 30, 2011
    ISBN9781458130754
    Rider On The Storm
    Author

    Darrel Bird

    Darrel Bird has written and published 47 short stories. He attended Bakersfield college, and is an avid motorcyclist.

    Read more from Darrel Bird

    Related to Rider On The Storm

    Related ebooks

    Religious Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Cosmic Mindlessness

      Jul 27, 2017

      Cosmic Mindlessness
      2 min read

    • Article

      A Strange REQUEST

      Sep 30, 2020

      A Strange REQUEST
      6 min read

    • Article

      Riccardo

      Jun 14, 2022

      My understanding of my family’s religion was that we didn’t have to go to church if we didn’t want to and that our belief in God was tenuous at best. I grasped the seventh principle, “the interconnected web of all existence,” and I understood the hum

      14 min read

    • Article

      The Life Of A Rascal

      Dec 18, 2019

      The Life Of A Rascal
      7 min read

    • Article

      Yvonne Bailey-Smith: ‘I Can’t Believe The Things That Priti Patel Is Coming Out With’

      Jun 23, 2021

      Yvonne Bailey-Smith had a phone call last week from the former deputy head of her daughter Zadie Smith’s school. The deputy head didn’t want to talk about Zadie or her bestselling novels; she wanted to congratulate Yvonne, who at 67 years old has jus

      5 min read

    • Article

      When Death Came to Golden

      Mar 5, 2018

      When Death Came to Golden
      19 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Fiction No. 245

      Dec 15, 2019

      The Art of Fiction No. 245
      42 min read

    • Article

      Thank God Nothing Lasts Forever

      May 21, 2021

      Thank God Nothing Lasts Forever
      16 min read

    • Article

      One Coyote

      Sep 29, 2020

      One Coyote
      9 min read

    • Article

      Alone with Kindred

      Sep 1, 2023

      Alone with Kindred
      12 min read

    • Article

      The Last Waylon Party

      Jan 18, 2019

      The Last Waylon Party
      14 min read

    • Article

      She Helped Him ‘Do Life’

      Oct 5, 2021

      She Helped Him ‘Do Life’
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Boy Named Fish

      Nov 11, 2021

      Julie Taylor, 56, Chelmsford Babbling away on the living-room floor, my son James, then 15 months, and grandson Liam, then 11 months, made the cutest pair. ‘Fish, Fish,’ James garbled, trying to say Liam’s name. Me and my daughter Michelle fell about

      4 min read

    • Article

      Jilly Cooper “I Believe In Love”

      Nov 2, 2023

      Jilly Cooper “I Believe In Love”
      7 min read

    • Article

      My Cellie Was the Father I Never Had

      Jun 13, 2019

      Editor’s note: This week, we’re running a special Life Inside series about fathers and incarceration. Read the previous essays about next-cell neighbors, dancing in the prison gym and a surprise meeting. I was born in 1964 on the South Side of Chicag

      5 min read

    • Article

      Bold Face

      Dec 9, 2022

      Bold Face
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Guardian Angel Of Laughlin Drive

      Nov 1, 2022

      A longer version of this essay won a Ten Spurs Award from the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference in 2021 and will be published in this year’s Ten Spurs Journal. The Texas Observer is helping sponsor the Mayborn’s writing contests this year. Joe l

      4 min read

    • Article

      After the Crash

      Feb 14, 2024

      After the Crash
      37 min read

    • Article

      No Country

      Nov 11, 2019

      No Country
      10 min read

    • Article

      Riding The Rapids

      Apr 4, 2021

      Riding The Rapids
      3 min read

    • Article

      Reservation Dogs

      May 10, 2019

      Reservation Dogs
      9 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Rider On The Storm

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Rider On The Storm - Darrel Bird

      Rider on the Storm

      By

      Darrel Bird

      Copyright 2010 by Darrel Bird

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords License Statement

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Rider on the Storm

      Jessie Roads was from Calaveras County, south of the Mason Dixon line—I mean, way down in Dixie. His family had been sharecroppers all his life. He was the second of five kids. In the fall, he had to pick cotton to help feed the large family. The school had to wait until the cotton crops were in. There was the cotton chopping in the spring and the picking in the fall, and he knew no other life. Because of that, his schooling was skimpy, and money was hard to come by. His family got by, and fried chicken made its way to their table when the preacher made his visit. That is, until hell came to breakfast at the Roads' house.

      One morning he got up and his dad was dead, killed by Ray Denton in

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1