The Cure for Death By Lightning
“She grazed her eyelashes across my cheek, fluttering them, and entered my dream as a moth. I shook my head awake, and my mother stood straight and produced a butterfly from behind her back. It was made from petals of scarlet flax and my mother’s fingers breathed life into it. This was a child’s game; it made me angry. I threw back the covers and turned my back on her as I dressed for school in a blue pinafore over a white blouse. I ate breakfast in silence and walked out of that kitchen and dow...n Blood Road without saying so long to anyone, triumphant in my crankiness, knowing full well that my mother’s sorry eyes were following me.
Lucifer tried to follow me too, mewing, onto Blood Road. A black cat on a red road, he was a sight. But I had no time for him that morning. I threw rocks, harder than I needed to, and he trotted back to the farm.
Halfway to school the anger lessened, and in an act of appeasement for hurting my mother I picked up a turtle straining her way back across the road and set her at the edge of one of the many sloughs.MoreLess
Lucifer tried to follow me too, mewing, onto Blood Road. A black cat on a red road, he was a sight. But I had no time for him that morning. I threw rocks, harder than I needed to, and he trotted back to the farm.
Halfway to school the anger lessened, and in an act of appeasement for hurting my mother I picked up a turtle straining her way back across the road and set her at the edge of one of the many sloughs.MoreLess
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