suzanne raether - Realm of Judaculla

Judaculla 7
Leeney Parker was everything, though; she was warm and slow
and smooth and calm. Every inch of her was kindness and her high
ridges and open valleys mesmerized. He gasped for breath as he met
her and erce air rushed in, setting goose bumps on his tongue. He
tasted the woods as it seeped in through the tin can trailer walls and
the avor ew to his head, intoxicating, burning. He exhaled the
limbs and leaves of every tree and inhaled for more and each breath
took him further into oak and pine and ash. Pale skin turned vibrant
red in patches, Boomer’s blood blooming and falling. Stump hands
grasped thighs and turned Leeney over to lay roots. He felt lush soil
take and guide, grounding. ey swayed and bent and Boomer be-
lieved. He planted his knees and Leeney showed him spring.
Leeney chuckled at the memory and turned to pour a cup of cof-
fee. Halfway through their tryst, she heard the trailer door open. She
didn’t think much of it; her momma said she might bring over toma-
toes for Boomer to give to his daddy. But when boots clunked across
the trailer oor, Leeney knew it wasn’t Mabel and tried to roll Boomer
up o her, but was too late. e sheri snatched Boomer by the scru
of his red neck and wrenched him out of Leeney. Buck shoved the boy
forward and Boomer smashed into an ugly Tiany buttery lamp. As
the sheri bent down to heave Boomer up, Leeney kneed Buck in the
head and he fell back against an old chest of drawers.
“You shit ass!” Leeney screamed, tits apping in fury. She jumped
o the bed as he stood up and she jabbed him in the face. Buck’s head
snapped back and blood spurted out his nose. Leeney spat, “at was
Grandma Parker’s lamp!”
Boomer reached for his pants, but Leeney spun around and hissed,
“You stay there, boy, I ain’t done with you yet.”
Leeney turned back around and grabbed the sheri and shued
him to the trailer door. rough curses, Leeney smelled gin on Buck’s
breath, and she twisted his arm around the small of his back and
yanked up. “You stay the hell out,” she hollered, kicking him down the