How many times had she rescued it? She'd lost
count. It seemed that every year since she'd gotten it, it had dwindled
down to nothing and she'd had to give it a serious haircut to get it
going again. It would, almost overnight, grow lush and full only to
start dwindling and drooping again with no warning. How often she had
looked at it, remembering, or drawing comfort from its upright eager
vines that never seemed to quit. Poor Charlie, she thought. How many
more times can I hack away at you like this and expect you to live?
The place was peopled by extras from "Hells
Angels on Wheels" and every bad prison movie ever made. This woman kept
bumping into me. She was medium height, slender, had long brown hair and
three teeth. Her face looked a little like it had caught fire and some
caring person had tried to put it out with an ax. Every time we collided
I apologized nervously and she walked away. From behind she could have
been Miss America. I swear.
He stutters
a bit and is silent as his truck slows down to ten miles per hour. Amery
hands a knife to Skip, who puts it next to his groin area. The car
stops, they both are thinking, looking at one another, their eyes are
not blinking, you can see the hairs of their eyebrows as if the eye is
attached to it, the lower lip of the eyelid is almost stuck to the
eyebrow from staring, --they're listening to the waves, for that is the
only sound now that is optional, except the humming of the truck motor,
the waves of the of the Great Lake Superior seem to be upon them .
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Skip: "Not sure, --maybe a skunk, dead frogs, the water
smells sometimes; maybe shit, who knows up here, could be a combination
... let's shut our windows." As another mile goes by it
starts to get a little foggy looking out the window, shadows seem to be
everywhere. Skip sees the thickness of the woods next to
him, as the head lights reflect the fog-lit moon shadows. In front of
him there are hundreds of frogs crossing the road, driftwood had reached
all the with way from the lake up to the road, --it is strange they both
think , and so
they now are thinking more with their body expressions, their face,
eyebrows, the way they look at each other; --they turn their head sharp
as if they sense Lake Superior is right next to them because of the
sounds of the waves are becoming louder again, but they know it is a few
hundred yards to the side of them, yet all this driftwood laying about,
they seem to be fixed on for the moment, as if they were on a levy.
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