Wes Coffey
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We walked up the two-track in the dark.
We soaked the cabin inside and out.
We lit it from the porch and we walked back the way we came without looking behind us.
I could hear the fire catching while we walked.
I could feel the heat on my neck.
I did not turn around.
When we got to the road, Buddy said, "'Don't come back, Wes.'
I said, "'I won't.'
Ricky said, "'What about the land?'
Buddy said, "'The land ain't his.
It never was.'
We stood there a minute.
Then we got in our trucks and we drove away.
I quit claim the property to the state of Tennessee a month later.
Paid a lawyer a lot of money to do it quick.
I don't know what they'll do with it.
Probably nothing.
160 acres of useless hollow country up on the plateau.
No access, no structures, no reason for anybody to go up there.
That's fine with me.