MOON BOOK
by
Emily Weinstein
(Excerpts Spoken & Written)
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Excerpt 1 - Safe Haven |
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| I'd planned on going camping in the mountains, but friends stopped me by recounting the current news of the mad bomber/killer on the loose up there. So here I am at Karin and Tripp's farm animal sanctuary, setting up in a big open field. I hear great hoofs approaching. I haven't gotten my night sight yet. Swoosh–hot air blows |
across my face. Surrounding me, I now see, is a herd of ex-veal calves, all over 1000 pounds each. The one closest, swooshing his great head, has long curling horns. I am terrified. He is now sniffing me, sniffing the paints, pawing the ground. Where is a tree? Do I play possum, run, grab his horns? Or just |
faint? I search my brain. Karin would not have a dangerous animal on her property; this is not Spain, I don't believe in bull fighting; I don't eat cows. I slowly pack up the supplies and creep back to the nearest tree, 50 feet away. The bull follows. I make it, but I'm thinking, The mountains couldn't be any more dangerous than this. |
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