Thunder In The Adobes

Born at the base of the Adobes where salt-encrusted mesas rise at discouragingly steep pitches. Stunted growth. Few plants tolerate the acidity and drought. Teenagers throw beer bottles and busted TVs, littering the gravely dirt with bullet shells scarring it with donuts and burnouts. In the land where car frames and bedframes are never discarded. Coyote saw the woman toiling up the steep slope, her pregnant belly scratched by saltbush and feet bleeding from cactus: Turn around and run, he …

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