Kirt Van Buren

The sun was high in the sky and the horseman noticed the large wooden tank cast no shadow. Despite the heat, neither the horse nor the rider showed any sign of sweat. The heat and the dust absorbed any moisture before it could form. As her hoofs clopped across the boards set longways in the tracks to create a crossing, the mare lifted her head and focused her ears on the water tank.

From the new Western, The Gallop Trap, by Kirt Van Buren.