Hell's Bottom, Colorado by Laura Pritchett

Author:Laura Pritchett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2012-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

We’re running toward our land, toward our trees. We fly alongside them and they scrape against our legs. Finally we stop and I’m trying to breathe, but I can’t, really, because I’m crying and tired from running so far. Billy sets the rifle on the ground, and he’s crying, too, but still he comes up and holds me. I press my forehead into his shirt and breathe in the warm air that smells like him. I want to stay like that for a long time, circled and protected by the arms of my brother, but all of a sudden, he jerks himself away. He raises his foot and stomps down on top of a tree, twists his foot and grinds the soft and brittle needles into dry ground. He reaches down and pulls at the tiny trunk. The tree stretches and then slowly gives way, followed by thin, curly roots pulling away from their home in the soil. Sandy grains of dirt sprinkle from their anchor and fall at our feet. The roots look like a bunch of tangled webs, and they’re already wilting in the sun.

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