Jesse
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I said, no.
I said, I aimed at the ground.
She nodded.
She said, Pearl aimed at the air.
She said, we don't try to hurt it.
We just let it know we're not afraid.
She went back inside.
I stayed through Sunday.
Nothing came Saturday night or Sunday night.
I left Monday morning.
Mama stood on the porch and waved until I couldn't see her in the rearview mirror.
I called her every day for the next month.
Every time I asked if it had come back.
Every time she said no.
By mid-November she said the chickens were laying again and Captain was going outside at night.
Whatever it was, it had stopped.
I want to say it stayed stopped.
I want to say that the shotgun blast and the salt and the anger and three generations of women refusing to be afraid were enough.
Mama died in the spring of 2019.
Heart failure, in her sleep, in her bed.