Jump Girl by Salicrow

Author:Salicrow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2017-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

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Kinetic Force

While we still owned the trailer and lived in a park outside Lyndonville, I started jogging. I would do a little over a mile and a half along a dirt road, always taking the same route and making sure to get a small incline out of the way at the beginning of the run, while I was still full of energy. The road ran beside a ravine, and every time I jogged past that ravine I would imagine there was a portal down at the bottom of it. Influenced by the fantasy novels I read, I would imagine what it would be like to be transported into another land.

I believe I was actually sensing an energetic portal—a strong node on a ley line that formed an energy basin at the base of the ravine. This particular stretch of road had a profound effect on me. My mind moved from one strange scenario to another. Because I jogged alone and had been raised by a marine, I obsessed a bit about what I would do if I were confronted with a dangerous scenario. I wasn’t being paranoid; it was more like a fantasy of self-defense, a natural response that comes from years of being told to be alert, to always have a plan.

My self-defense plan centered on kinetic force. As I ran, I imagined being attacked while running, and I clearly saw myself sending someone flying across the road with a force that came from my hands. This image arose so often that I began to actually think of my superhero power as real. I hadn’t the slightest idea how to do such a thing. I just believed I could.

Years later, after we moved to Newark, we owned a bar and a store in Lyndonville. I read cards in the store and sold metaphysical books and clothing I made. Upstairs we sold fancy tobacco and smoking accessories, the bread and butter of the business. Because of the nature of our businesses, we knew a lot of people in bands and got invited to some pretty cool parties.

One of guys who invited us to a party was a politically aware hippie with a love of cheap art. He played the banjo and sang in a number of bands, and he liked to throw parties that were social experiments in many ways, including a few parties that were based on color. At one of these, the Red Party, everything was supposed to be red. Guests were told to come in red in whatever way they felt drawn to do. I chose a long red dress with a hood and went as my own interpretation of Red Riding Hood. Noel borrowed an old Soviet military uniform from a friend’s dad and went as a Red Russian. Another friend wore plaid flannels: Mr. Red Green. All the light bulbs in the house had been replaced with red ones. The food was red; the beverages were red; the energy was most certainly red.

A band out

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