When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams

Author:Terry Tempest Williams [Williams, Terry Tempest]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429942829
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

During the last week of the field course we focused on stream studies, surveying the caddis fly and mayfly larvae living in Richardson Creek. Upstream, students started yelling frantically for us to come. We abandoned our collecting gear to see what the commotion was about.

Next to the creek, at the base of the ravine, there was a small wickiup constructed out of willows. Inside were bloody deer skulls and amulets made of bone. A small library of esoteric books on Mesoamerican cultures from Aztecs to Mayans were in orderly stacks, with sections on human sacrifice marked with pieces of torn paper. And then one of the students pulled out the double-edged ax.

I became nauseated at the sight of the weapon and excused myself. I threw up. When one student found me heaving in the bushes, she asked if she could help.

“No, thanks, just the flu.”

I said nothing to no one again.

Brooke begged me to go to the police. I refused. The good Mormon girl said, “I am fine.”

“Just let it go,” I said.

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