Cool Water (2011)
“Perhaps it once had an Indian name that translates as Ghost Creek—the evidence of an encampment lies in the half-dozen teepee rings in a nearby pasture—but if the place was named by the Cree or the Blackfoot, that’s not common knowledge.
The campground is usually a peaceful spot. The highway traffic sounds at night are muted and the noisiest neighbours are the coyotes, whose eerie falsetto voices carry like sirens in the darkness. The town kids might drive through and rev their engines or spin ...their tires, but it’s not a place they’re much interested in. It’s too quiet for them.
On this particular August night, though, there is one loud tenant in the campground: a horse making a racket inside a steel horse trailer while his owner sleeps soundly in a pup tent. Bored with standing around in the trailer, the horse plays with the dangling end of the lead rope that secures him, biting and tugging with his teeth, loosening the carelessly tied knot. When he backs up, the rope pulls free, and when he leans his weight against the trailer door he’s surprised that it swings wide, allowing him to make an escape.MoreLess
The campground is usually a peaceful spot. The highway traffic sounds at night are muted and the noisiest neighbours are the coyotes, whose eerie falsetto voices carry like sirens in the darkness. The town kids might drive through and rev their engines or spin ...their tires, but it’s not a place they’re much interested in. It’s too quiet for them.
On this particular August night, though, there is one loud tenant in the campground: a horse making a racket inside a steel horse trailer while his owner sleeps soundly in a pup tent. Bored with standing around in the trailer, the horse plays with the dangling end of the lead rope that secures him, biting and tugging with his teeth, loosening the carelessly tied knot. When he backs up, the rope pulls free, and when he leans his weight against the trailer door he’s surprised that it swings wide, allowing him to make an escape.MoreLess
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