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LeavingPeople attend Ida’s funeral and wake with weariness, as though two funerals in the one family in such a short period is more than their politeness can bear. A resignation, a relief that her suffering is finished, is the overall theme. Bad luck about the sheds. On top of it all. Shipped back to school for her exams, Cassie feels thrown into the lifeboat of a sinking ship. She’s the only one in the boat but it is a boat made for more than one.
She dreams of the black stallion. No longer interested in her, he prances around the wrecked chicken carcasses. She sees his p***s, slick and putrid, and her dreams turn to Paulo, the yearning thick. She dreams Paulo stands behind her, brushes his hands over her shoulders, and she shudders as though tickled with a hundred feathers. The
