Hello and welcome to the Drabble Cast episode 446. The Drabble

cast is a weekly audio fiction podcast magazine that brings strange stories

by strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host Norm Sherman.

This week on the Travelcast, welcome to the Wild Weird West, Travelcast style.

We bring you an original unpublished story by Joshua Bush.

Joshua lives in Indiana, where he works from home as a software engineer.

He enjoys walking in the woods and being distracted from work by his two cats.

His childhood ambition was to invent the warp drive, but failing that, he finds writing stories to be a satisfactory alternative.

Visit him at Joshua dash Bush.com.

So without further ado, we bring you

The Wichita Drive by Joshua Bush. They were down in the gully, watering the cattle when Billy came thundering down the

ridge line on his sorrel mare weaving his hat and hollering like he just seen the whole

kamanche nation bearing down.

Mr. Lee, he cried.

Mr. Lee!

Harry Lee, the top hand on the drive trotted up to meet him,

keeping his Palomino well in hand

so as not to disturb the herd any further.

The younger cowboy was good in the saddle,

but he was greener than spring horse pucky

and had half as much sense.

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