Hag Night by Curran Tim

Author:Curran, Tim [Curran, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2013-02-02T14:00:00+00:00

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Let me preface this by saying that God never created a more reckless and impulsive tribe than boys. And it was in the company of two of them that I visited Cobton. This was back in ’57 when I was but ten years old, bright-eyed and naïve and thick-headed, in thrall to my brother Andy who was three years older than me and, in my narrow mindset, the greatest human being that had ever lived.

Andy was one of those kids that comes into this world ready to take it by the horns and conquer it, to squeeze every drop of life from it and drink it like sweet wine. He climbed the highest trees, knocked balls over the fence, beat up bullies, dated the cutest girls, ran faster and jumped higher and spit farther than any kid I had ever known before or since. He was a natural. We’ve all known kids who are gawky and unsure like colts that need to get their legs under them, but Andy was never a colt—he was a stallion and he was born to run. He was smart, he was fast, he was good-looking, he was athletic, and he was brave. He climbed to the top of the town water tower, he spent the midnight hour in an eighteenth century tomb on Halloween night, he shimmied up flagpoles, swam the deepest rivers in July, built box kites that really flew, and rushed for touchdowns on September nights.

And lucky.

God, that kid was lucky.

He had the Midas touch. Everything went his way. Even things that should have been absolute tragedies turned to gold for him and only enhanced his near-legendary status with us kids. One rainy afternoon he ran across the street without looking and was hit by a car. It should have ended in broken bones and traction at the very least…but not for Andy. He was hit, thrown over the top of the car, rolled down the trunk and…miraculously, like a stuntman, he landed on his feet and walked away from it all. Impossible, you say? You didn’t know Andy. He was bruised and banged-up, but he was back in school the next day. One year he decided to climb the high pines that enclosed our local athletic field—where one day he would be a star—simply because they were towering and they were there. Here’s the problem with that. Just behind the pines there were telephone poles, and strung through the boughs of those pines were the wires. Thirty feet up, Andy reached for a branch and grabbed the hot line. What happened at that point is that he became a ground and 2400 volts shot through him. Well, at the moment he grabbed that line, at the very same moment, the limb he was standing on broke and he fell to the ground. There was burnt hole in his palm where the voltage entered him and another at his ankle where it grounded out into the tree. But he survived and the chances of that are probably a million to one.

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