Milk by Simon Fruelund

Author:Simon Fruelund
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Santa Fe Writers Project
Published: 2013-04-19T21:00:00+00:00

Morten fanned his arms wildly as I drove across the yard. I stopped the car and picked him up.

—Did he let you drive it?

—Yeah, I said.

We continued down through the yard and into the field. We had just come out onto the stubble when I caught sight of the neighbor’s dog. It was sniffing around on our side of the property line. It had once bitten Morten, so I turned sharply to the right and started after it. At first it stood staring at us dumbly, but then it took off running along the dirt road on the other side of the property line. Morten said something or other as I continued into the neighbor’s field, but I ignored it. The dog was right in front of us, with its tongue wagging from its chops, bolting away, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left of us. I jerked the steering wheel from side to side; it was not something you did unless you had such a dog in front of you. We had reached a good way across the field, so far that nobody could’ve seen us from home. That’s when I looked at Morten. He opened his eyes wide and covered his face in his hands. I looked ahead and saw the creek. I heard Morten shout something I couldn’t make out, and I could tell from the steering how the front wheels had lost contact with the ground. Suddenly we hung suspended in air, floating, but only for a moment. Then we landed on the other side of the creek. I caught the wheel in my gut, but Morten braced himself against the dashboard, so nothing happened to him. The front of the Rover didn’t look so pretty, but the motor still ran.

The dog hadn’t made the jump across the creek, and now it strutted on the other side, big and dumb and aggressive. We sat for a while catching our breath.

—What do you think Grandpa’s gonna say? Morten asked.

I shrugged my shoulders and put the car in gear. We rolled through the grass until we found the road.

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