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December 7, 2006

Tanya: Untitled

“Mommy, I have to pee.”

“Stop calling me that. And you should’ve gone in Topeka. Hold it.”

Ten minutes sped by, like the plains beside the freeway.

“Mommy, I really have to go.”

“Fine.” Katherine pulled off the road and stopped. She let the boy out on the shoulder, grumbling to herself. “Goddamn kid. I’m too young to…”

Her glance caught the yellow stream, and the similarly golden rattlesnake it had awoken. Next thing she knew, she had a shovel in her hands, the snake’s head was off, and she was sobbing on the boy. A near miss, both ways.

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Comments

These are people I want to hear more about.

Posted by: Stacy at December 7, 2006 10:06 PM · Permalink

Stacy, I was thinking the same thing.

Posted by: Jim Parkinson at December 8, 2006 12:12 AM · Permalink