Night Ride
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Riding a bicycle is such a part of the American way of live that is not surprising to see bike lanes alongside the roads of our towns. From the old "Paperboy Special" type up to the serious racing bicycles you see them in the garages and on the roads in our cities and towns. As exercise, it is more costly than walking and running but is often the exercise of choice.
So it is in our story here. In Arizona summers leaving early...sometimes as early as four in the morning...a good ride can get you home for breakfast and in time for work. What you encounter along the ride can be colorful sunrises, light traffic and runners. On this day, our protagonist hero finds much more. A life changing event totally unexpected. This day he is late to work.
James Russell Allen
When I was introduced in a writing workshop and asked what I had been writing I responded; “As a CPA, I have been mostly writing financial reports and statements.” The professor’s response was; “Okay then, you are an experienced fiction writer.” Well, I don’t know about that, but I am satisfied to be writing when, where and what I want now. As a freshman in high school, I was placed into a class teaching speed reading. It was a challenge and results were shown almost daily. The readings, while we learned new techniques, were usually from the Reader’s Digest and we were timed and then tested for comprehension. I remember my speeds got up into the thousands of words per minute on some types of articles with over 90% comprehension. This probably began my love of reading. As an adult there was always a stack of books, usually three or more at hand. One year I decided to discover how many books I actually read for that year and it was seventy-two. When a person reads enough, he begins to make judgements about the authors and their writing approaches. It often instills the desire in many of us to try writing on our own. In 2007 I was waiting in a Doctor’s office, (Isn’t that what you are there for, the wait? Don’t they call it the “waiting room?”) when I noticed an article about the Amazon Kindle in Time magazine. I read it twice before I was invited in. By that evening I had ordered the Kindle for $399! I’ve never looked back. Our family room sported some custom made bookshelves filled with books, most of which I had read. I had read many of the Louis L’Amour books in paperback and collected them but one day my wife decided they were taking up too much space on the shelves so she contributed them to a library. Oh well, they are light reading and always entertaining if you are as familiar with the Southwest as I am. Now I can carry my current library in one or another of my electronic devices. The book world has changed, especially for those who are voracious readers. Many of us think we would like to write a book. When we learned about the difficulty and percentage of actually getting published it was, and still is daunting. Now you can write and publish a book yourself and the book can be done quickly and done to the highest standards if you are willing to pay the price in time and the learning required. You can also have paper copies of your book made for purchase on demand on several ebook sites and Amazon. So, being a retired CPA and seeing all of this develop over the past few years, that was the incentive to go forward with a book. With the cost of any e-reader now very affordable, more and more people have one. By the way, now with your device you have something better to do in the “waiting room.”
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Night Ride - James Russell Allen
NIGHT RIDE
a short story by:
JAMES RUSSELL ALLEN
NIGHT RIDE
Published by James Russell Allen at Smashwords
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Copyright © 2014 James Russell Allen
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ISBN:
For William N. Allen
Ride on Billy
CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUTHOR
OTHER STORIES
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I PULLED ON my favorite, form fitting red, white and blue biking shirt and contemplated the dark, chilly morning. This shirt sported advertisements from now defunct companies but the tight, black riding shorts built my confidence for the long ride ahead. Before putting on my gloves--the black ones with open fingertips--I re-oiled the chain and the clip-on pedals