The Temptation (Kindred)
“I coughed down a gagging sensation, and gasped for air, my collapsed lungs filling again, hacking out whatever had drained into them. I rolled convulsively onto my side in the wet desert dust, and I heaved; I coughed up scabs and gooey blood clots from my throat into my mouth. The pain still gripped me, but it was fading, like the sound of a parade that has rounded the corner already. I remembered nothing for a moment, and wondered where I was. An angry sky, a barren landscape, sagebrush. Highw...ay 550. The descansos. The word boomeranged back to me: Chaco. I’d been there.
I pushed myself to sitting, and wiped the rain and blood from my eyes, still coughing with the taste of iron and death in my mouth. I looked down and saw my feet, battered in torn black stockings. I wore a black party dress whose pretty pink sash was ripped and soiled, and lay in a miserable scribble on the ground at my side. I saw other feet then, two pairs. I looked up, stunned to remember I was not alone. Kelsey. My best friend.MoreLess
I pushed myself to sitting, and wiped the rain and blood from my eyes, still coughing with the taste of iron and death in my mouth. I looked down and saw my feet, battered in torn black stockings. I wore a black party dress whose pretty pink sash was ripped and soiled, and lay in a miserable scribble on the ground at my side. I saw other feet then, two pairs. I looked up, stunned to remember I was not alone. Kelsey. My best friend.MoreLess
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