Fugitive Assemblage by Jennifer Calkins

Author:Jennifer Calkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Landscape, Feminist, Experimental, California, Family, History, Noir, Women
Publisher: The 3rd Thing
Published: 2020-02-29T00:00:00+00:00

The Lord shall send thee trouble and shame because of thy wickedness Whatever I was when I was on that road I’m something else now. I just want to remind you of that. The she I was was so desperate and bloody that running wasn’t going to solve anything.

But, of course, running never really does. the king now has on his conjuring cap Someone always catches you, someone always puts a gun to your head while you sleep in a dirty bed in a sad little motel just outside of Bakersfield or rams their truck into you as you stand hitchhiking along the road in Indio, the sweat pouring, then flying, off you, as you are thrown to the side, everything inside of you broken.

steal young children…the help of demons But that tendency to run, to create the sense of escape, was in my blood. Although, when it comes down to it, escaping into the gutter with a bottle of rotgut or dissolving into dementia, were more effective means to escape than taking to the road in a car with a trunk full of the very thing you are fleeing.

I thought they’d follow me. But there was no they, I was just afraid. The only person who had a stake in what I was carrying was that first love I keep mentioning, and he had washed his hands of me long ago.

Indeed, he’d run before I’d ever told him about the thing in the trunk.

The lord shall smite thee with the botch of Egypt and with emrods, and scab, and itch, and thou canst not be healed.

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