Bella's Run
“She had been hoping a walk along the beach would help her sort out her rampaging thoughts and feelings. It hadn’t. Just made her all the more confused.Merinda stood beckoning in its serenity at the end of the plane-tree drive, but Bella sat in her vehicle at the front gate and surveyed the paddocks on both sides of the track. Thrown across the flats was the weak, late-afternoon light she always associated with Sundays; the death throes of a fantastic weekend before school or work the next day. ...She gazed at the heifers playing around in the paddock to her left, the calves of last year halfway to maturity, having a ball in adolescence. Then to her right were a few morose choppers, cows with recurrent mastitis or low milk yields that had been consigned to be carted away in the cattle truck to the chopper market on Tuesday. They’d be on the road to the abbatoirs the following day.She and Patty had once been like the heifers: carefree adolescents. At the grand old age of thirty, she now felt like the choppers.MoreLess
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