Stable Tales

By Darragha Foster

Stable Tales comprises three novellas where personal stability and freedom come while mucking stalls, grooming horses and learning about life...in a stable. Two contemporary romances and one fantasy/dystopian. The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears--Arabian Proverb.

When Lightning Strikes: Former soldier Johnny Jewell is a gay cowboy who has never been with another man. He kept his desires buried deep, married, had a family and lost everything when he came out. A lightning strike, fire and death burn his already complicated world to white-hot ash. All he has left now are horses and hard work. After a move across the country, he meets a horse trainer named Sig and finds it's time to saddle up and face the storm head-on. Will the next lightning strike put him asunder or spark life in the beast within?

The Mounting Block: He lost a leg to save a community's connectivity. He also lost his sense of balance--in more ways than one. Equine therapy can help him regain physical balance, while a Hellenistic blacksmith and horse trainer helps him regain footing as a gay man deserving of love.

Bucking Hay: Judah "Hay" El-Bara is a nineteen-year-old sacrificial bridegroom to a harvest goddess long worshipped by his traditionalist parents and community. For him to seed the harvest would be a lie. He isn't attracted to women. Embracing his sexuality, Hay begins a relationship with a stranger named Buck. But Buck isn't exactly what he seems. Buck is a mystical vessel of change. Hard work may bring salvation, but harder work can change the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BD7W8LD7
• ISBN13: 9798986924618
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Victory Woman Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"