suzanne raether - Realm of Judaculla

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10 Suzanne Raether “Yeah, I do. at’s why he’s better o being as far away from me as possible,” Leeney rebutted. “You’re a damn fool,” Mabel said aloud now like she did to Leeney then. “You’re a God damn fool.” Mabel needed to calm down; she was supposed to watch her blood pressure, an idea that ipped her into a snit. “Never was a Parker who died from feeling,” she told her doctor when he opened negotiations about medicine last year. “I’ll just smoke my weed and listen to Jimi if I feel unduly riled. Besides, I’m an old crow now. I like it. Not much going on anymore to bother me, other than Leeney’s bullshit.” And she was right; retirement suited Mabel Parker. Since her daughter took over the family business a while back, Mabel embraced freedom. She stayed pleasantly stoned all day and drank expensive coee and imported whisky. She kept a little garden that was more sunowers than tomatoes and watched a reproachable amount of bad made-for-TV sci- movies. She played World of Warcra fourteen hours a week, thanks to Tosk, and in general tried to stay out of the world’s way. Lord knows she deserved it, too. Taking care of Cullowhee was not easy. It demanded more unconditional love than most could muster. e Parkers were uniquely qualied for the charge due to their ances- try, and Mabel enjoyed the work but she enjoyed retirement more. Retired, she had more time to practice magic, and magic was Mabel’s favorite thing to do. ƒ§ About two miles in, Tim wasn’t feeling as poorly as he expected. e nightmare burned away and he sank into a lazy lope that would carry him to the rock and back to his car- a useless run, training- wise, but he didn’t care much about training. Coach would have a t when he found out Tim ran o campus—especially if he discovered
Judaculla 11 Tim went down Caney Fork. e road chased a creek that plunged o the Tuckasegee and was made of blind curves. He’d run all over Cullowhee, and Caney Fork was the only road that didn’t bore him. Beardtongue blooms and baby lilies lined the road and kudzu reached for his feet. Tim slapped the fat leaves and his palm twitched and tingled. He ran like he could outrace the wind. Truth be told, though, Tim was tired of running. He’d been racing since he was eleven, and at twenty years old he was done with it. Back at Smoky Mountain High School, he was the track team’s pride and joy. State Champ, twice over, in the mile and two-mile, and he lead his cross-country team to three state trophies. He was courted by all the big names: Louisiana State, UCLA, Oregon, and Rice. Even the Army wanted Tim to run. He had the fastest set of legs in all of North Carolina and could have written his ticket to anywhere, but didn’t. His heart just wasn’t in it. He fell out of love with the race, so he disappointed everyone, stayed home, and signed onto Western’s team to get a free ride. His parents were more than a little mied; they had already gotten new jobs down state when Tim copped out. His mom was from Raleigh originally, and she wanted to move back closer to Tim’s grandfather. His parents moved anyway and gured Tim would eventually get sick of Cullowhee and want to transfer to Chapel Hill. He was smart enough, and it was a good racing team, but Tim never changed his mind. ey refused to let him live alone at the house and decided to rent it out and make him move into the dorms. Aer two years, it became abundantly clear that Tim had the will of a goat, and his parents decided to put the house on the market and stay in Raleigh for good. Luckily, Tim didn’t hate dorm life, but he did hate his room and teammate, Sean. Tim couldn’t wait for him to move out. Sean was supposed to be in the Fraternity Village at the beginning of the summer, but Western lost his room transfer request, again, and they were stuck together for another week. ey were never the closest of
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