The Boy Who Couldn't Talk

She was a Mustang that roamed free for the first part of her life. Then one day she and many other horses pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="were rounded" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-6B3C7675C159BBAAAED58B21486F2E13" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="">were rounded up and sold. They would all one day become rodeo broncs.
A long time ago in a big red barn is where the story of my life begins. The big red barn pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was set" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-C474B2DE0D29837B01AFD7A1E429599D" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="">was set on a hilltop, surrounded by grass so high it would tickle my belly. The trees were so tall they hung over the rooftop. I remember how the morning sun rising above the mountains would make the sky turn bright red. The days started with the allure of new adventures to pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="experience" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Missing punctuation" data-pwa-id="pwa-11EA4EEEB781F459BBA7275FC3CDB92F" data-pwa-rule-id="END_PUNC" data-pwa-suggestions="experience.">experience
My name is Haystack. I am a horse. I remember playing with Boots the dog and Specs the rooster behind the barn in the field where my mama, Libby, would watch us.
Wesley, my owner, tells the story of the day pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="they were rounded" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-F8941A4EF1AA188658BAA7AA1A18E5FD" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE_TO_ACTIVE" data-pwa-suggestions="we rounded them~I rounded them~it rounded them">they were rounded up, told to him by the old man who helped in this endeavor. His story went something like this:
On the morning the horses pwa-mark" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="were gathered" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-DFA8F1A5145FEB190C5FCA0C60CF22FC" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="">were gathered up the trees pwa-mark" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="were frozen" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-F07D3E61E48884391E59CE22517D7D4C" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="">were frozen from the frost; the wind blew so pwa-mark" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="cold," data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Possible comma splice." data-pwa-id="pwa-77F90218132EB9531F599241B1C9E3A2" data-pwa-rule-id="COMMA_SPL" data-pwa-suggestions="cold;">cold, it was like we were at the North Pole.
So, rounding up these horses quickly was the task at hand. We parked our trailers at the top of the canyon wall, in hopes we would find the Mustangs at the bottom of the cliff, warming themselves against the rocks where the sun had been shining.