Missing in Action
“He headed south from the farm, away from Delta, down a dirt road. He knew that he had to figure something out. He had to get away from Ken, and he was not going back to face the boys in town. He also wasn’t going to watch his mother sit in the living room with Hal Duncan every night.
The road kept going until it gradually dwindled down to nothing more than tracks in the desert overgrown with rabbitbrush and mustard weed. It was stupid to keep heading deeper into the desert, but he couldn’t thin...k what else to do. He could head off to the east and try to get to a highway, maybe hitchhike his way somewhere. But he didn’t know where. No matter what he’d said earlier, he couldn’t really go to his Navajo grandmother. He didn’t want to live in a hogan.
Jay stopped and looked out across the desert. Everything was flat and empty. It was gray more than green, and he didn’t understand anything about it. Maybe Indians knew these places. Maybe they knew how to live out here, but he didn’t.MoreLess
The road kept going until it gradually dwindled down to nothing more than tracks in the desert overgrown with rabbitbrush and mustard weed. It was stupid to keep heading deeper into the desert, but he couldn’t thin...k what else to do. He could head off to the east and try to get to a highway, maybe hitchhike his way somewhere. But he didn’t know where. No matter what he’d said earlier, he couldn’t really go to his Navajo grandmother. He didn’t want to live in a hogan.
Jay stopped and looked out across the desert. Everything was flat and empty. It was gray more than green, and he didn’t understand anything about it. Maybe Indians knew these places. Maybe they knew how to live out here, but he didn’t.MoreLess
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