December 01, 2004

The impact started at her shoulder blade and knocked her easily to the ground. She was so shocked by it that at first she didn’t feel any pain, but just felt herself not wanting to get up, but to just crawl as fast as she could back to the house and find her mom’s legs to wrap around and hide behind like dissappearing into the shadows of a forest. The boys never knew where it had gone, but it stayed with her for a good long while, aged and strengthened by the fact that it was her memory only.

December 1, 2004 04:20 PM