Billy’’s First Ride

"Go do it, boy." "What?" Was she talking to me? I seemed to be the only boy around. This is the experience of a lonely rancher's son who takes a long walk down a deserted highway in Eastern Oregon, sealing his fate when he collides with an alluring young bank robber. Soon to stun the nation, they grow their reputations as "Billy and Beauty," waging a chaotic, decade long crime spree across the country. When they decide to retire to South America, the adventure grows even larger than an already too large life. Billy's First Ride is the novella sized tale of the often unwitting and always reluctant former ranch hand turned puppet and criminal for love and the fascinatingly psychopathic object of his affection, disdain, and instrument of his downfall. Here is your front seat invitation for an eighty mile per hour romp across two continents to the peddle to the metal antics of this unforgettable pair from rural Oregon that ends up too far from home.

Myla Stauber has a talent for novella length fiction that narrates the human heart. Her fiction explores the sublime inner worlds of characters that will get under a reader’s skin. Her stories continue to haunt long after they are read. Myla lives in Portland, Oregon. Collections of her short fiction are forthcoming.