Runt
“When I said tara to the school and laughed and did a dance on my own and NotDad pushed me out and up to Drunkle’s house because He Needed Me they said, Them Two, He Needed Me is what They said cos Auntie Scantie was found up in the tree like they found the ripped sheep but she wasn’t ripped or not in a way that could be eyed and he’s lonely They said and He Needed Me but They were going to Go Their Separate Ways and wanted me gone, My Mam Bethan and that dark bastard NotDad. And he said oh yes ...comen stay did my Drunkle after the men in white suits with guns had come to shoot all their sheep, his and Fay’s, even if there was nothing wrong with their feet or their mouths they just shot em all blam anyway around that tree that Auntie Scantie Fay climbed and then jumped out of necktied to a branch and where after that they found the ripped sheep too or maybe that was another tree I can’t remember it, which one. And oh yes Arthur died too, that dark face-scrapey fella falling back into the mountain with my good dog Arrn gone now but I remember him always I remember looking through his eyes.MoreLess
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