Eight Seconds to Fly

Eight Seconds to Fly

Author: Grace McGinty Listening Length: 9h 10m

Tessa May Everett had grown up loving four things in life; bull riding, her father and her best frenemies, Branch and Beau. But in less than eight seconds, she’d lost all four things and the single most important person in her life. Four years later, Tessa May is back and ready to reclaim her dreams. She was going to ...

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H ave I mentioned that riders are superstitious?

Just a few times now? Well, I wasn’t about to tell anyone else, but I was performing the best rides of my damn life for the next two rodeos.

I rode a bull for eight seconds each weekend, though I always crashed and burned on the second bull, but my scores were great.

I wasn’t about to take out the World Championship, but I sat comfortably on the leaderboard and I brought in a little bit of cash.