Skyrider

In a dusty desert ranch where the wind whistles through corrals and the night sky stretches like a canvas, a young man named Johnny is caught between his day‑job wrangling broncs and his secret longing to become a poet of the heavens. He scribbles verses about soaring through clouds and courting Venus, dreaming of an “airplane boat” that could carry him beyond the ordinary life of the Rolling R herd. His sister, Mary V, watches his fanciful ambitions with sharp humor, finishing his half‑written rhyme with biting wit and challenging his pretensions at every turn.

As the ranch hands Bud Norris and Bill Hayden arrive for another day’s work, Mary V retreats to a childhood lookout, a perch that lets her hear the chatter of the corral and gauge the growing tension between duty and imagination. The opening chapters weave humor, sibling rivalry, and the restless yearning for adventure, setting the stage for a tale that balances the grounded grit of ranch life with the lure of the limitless sky.