Dusk Country Blues: Part I

Chapters I & II

I

She stood naked on the abandoned highway into town. Twilight casting shadows from the greyed husks of the industrial plants looming over the road. Her hair tumbled brown past her knees. Thousands of fireflies swarmed her antlers like a beacon.

I held my breath, crouched behind a rusted pickup truck, the blood pounding in my temples. Swallowing hard and …