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Nine-year-old Dani makes a fervent promise that there will always be horses in her life, so when she finds out her next-door neighbor won a scholarship to an exclusive horsemanship program, she vows to win one too. She never gets the chance—but her short life has a lasting effect on a community.

All human characters and events in this story are purely fictional. Some of the settings have real place names, but they have been otherwise altered to suit the story.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The list below will include links to chapters as they are posted each week.

0 - Prologue

Part 1 | History is an Angel

1: 1 - Building a Dragon

1: 2 - The Heart of a Horseman

1: 3 - The Storyteller

1: 4 - Fortune

1: 5 - The Neighbor

1: 6 - Allen Haven Ranch

1: 7 - Acceptance

1: 8 - Spooked

1: 9 - Kiko

1: 10 - Horses. Honor. Scholarship.

1: 11 - Tickets for Demo Day

1: 12 - Bow and Arrow


Part 2 | History is a Pile of Debris

2: 1 - Outside of Time

2: 2 - Collapse

2: 3 - Between the Raindrops

2: 4 - Monday

2: 5 - At the Door

2: 6 - Rattling Place

2: 7 - Guilt and Ice Cream

2: 8 - Nova

2: 9 - Locked

2: 10 - Drift

2: 11 - Now Here, Nowhere

2: 12 - Tethered



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