Ralph would know all there was to know about how they had made you. As she left them behind she heard again the slap of a fifteen-kilo body hitting mud, and the clap of the blunderbuss. As in denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Michael looked at the ancient stubble of corn shocks and rusting machinery.
Our neighbors along the Missouri often took tusks from drowned mammoths and used them as frames for the doors of their log and dirt houses. It was a good axe head, but not perfect. Don’t expect us to be like the spirits in an anthropology textbook. No checks and balances.
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