first entry - Logs and Motes - opening scene
19 March 08 - 07:28
There's something oppressive about a long black government car. They seem to move along the road like a black adder...delivering unpleasant news to the unlucky. The passengers don't express much beyond the obligatory sorrow if there is any to be had.On this day in the early '40s, a little boy named Joey Thomas saw the black snake car pull into the gravel path leading to his house. He lived on a farm in Iowa. He was home from school that day with a cold, but he saw the black snake from his window and was curious. His bigger brother Sam was at school, so he missed the black snake. Joey wasn't scared...only curious.
Joey padded down the stairs in his pajamas and sock feet, softly, so as not to scare off the black snake car. He had a small cowlick on the back of his head...covered with dark hair...that he tried to smooth down. His ma also had dark hair in a braid wound round her head. ... (more)
