Mason
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Podcast Appearances
My uncle saw me looking at them and told me not to stare too long.
We found one more thing.
Near the ditch, half hidden under brush, was my work hoodie.
I know I said it was in my back seat.
It was.
I had seen it when the voice came from behind me.
I had not opened the back doors at my uncle's house.
Nobody had taken it out.
But there it was, in the dirt near the place where the coyote had first been lying.
It was inside out and it smelled awful.
Not like roadkill, exactly.
More like wet fur and rotten meat and burned hair.
My uncle picked it up with a stick and told me not to touch it.
He put it in the truck bed, and we burned that too when we got back.
That was when I finally asked him straight out what he thought it was.
He took a long time to answer.
Then he said, "'There are people who mess with things they shouldn't, and there are things that mess back.'"
I told him that didn't answer my question.
He said, good, that annoyed me then, but now I understand.
Some answers don't help.