Slash (Novella I) by Kevin Anthony Read Free Book Online

condition.
    “ Momma, I’m not going to college. You have gotten worst since my graduation,” MT said.
    Her mother didn’t respond. Her mother kept on mumbling to herself and writing mad things from her mind on the living room walls. MT knew she was different. To others the sun was warm, jokes were funny and food was to be craved, but not to MT. She just existed. Her mother was one of the few who treated her normal and now Fran was unresponsive.
    MT could not leave her mother. “Momma, what did you do to yourself?”
    Every doctor MT had visited ended up asking the same question.
    MT stuck with her mother, taking care of her while people her age were heading off to college. The state offered to commit her mother, but just because Fran was different didn’t mean MT was going to give up on her.
    Tonight, MT was struggling to get her mother to stick with her as the nude dancers approached them. Fran wrestled her arm away and darted forward toward the nude dancers. MT couldn’t turn away and leave her mother. She stood up and climbed over the downed tree.
    A dancer grabbed Fran. “Who are you?”
    Fran screamed and fought.
    “ She’s my momma,” MT said as she approached. “She’s harmless.”
    “ Stop moving,” One of the dancers said as he pointed a bloodied knife at MT.
    MT stopped. “We’ll leave and we won’t say anything. My momma won’t even remember any of this.”
    “ She’s right,” A familiar voice said.
    MT glanced toward the source of the voice to find Kenneth slipping on his jeans. “What are you doing out here?”
    Kenneth grabbed Fran away from her capture. “They won’t say anything. If they do I’ll take all the blame.”
    The nude dancers whispered amongst each other and retreated.
    MT rushed forward and grabbed her mom. “Kenneth, they just killed a man.”
    “ He’s a man that was destroying this forest. Apparently, they want to build a mall in Mt. Springer on this spot.”
    “ You just got back in town, how are you even involved in this madness?”
    Kenneth laughed. “This isn’t madness. This is for Mother Nature. She brought us all here to defend her.”
    “ Start a petition or something, but don’t kill.”
    “ He wasn’t killed; he was sacrificed and returned to the earth from which he came.” Kenneth motioned at Fran. “And plus instead of telling me how to live my life maybe you should get some control over yours’. Maybe you should try to get the woman some real help.”
    “ I did, she’s on meds.”
    “ Meds are for sick people, MT. Maybe your mom isn’t sick at all. A woman named Tatu could offer a lot of help. I ignored Mother Nature and Tatu reached into my mind and told me I was being called. I was freed from restless nights and depression. Let Tatu reach into your mother’s mind and find out how she can be freed from this state.”
    “ I’m not letting anybody associated with you touch my momma.”
    “ You better try something because if I wasn’t here tonight, you and your mom would be returned to the earth.”
    MT scoffed. “Fuck you and goodbye.”
    MT took her mom back home and put her to bed. As MT lay in bed, she thought over Kenneth’s words, if medicine and the doctors’ opinions weren’t fixing her mother, maybe the advice of a mad person would. MT grabbed her laptop and did a web search for the keywords ‘Madness’ and ‘Tatu’.
    Chapter 7 – Two Down
    Ford had been accustomed to Valarie disappearing from his life during her drug binges, but never for a period this long. He still sought her out to apologize, but wondered if she was even still alive now. Though their last conversation with each other was harsh, he did not mean anything he said and he hoped his mother didn’t either.
    He narrowed his search for her down to the inner city. The area mainly consisted of abandoned buildings occupied by the homeless and government housing apartment complexes. Ford started his search early in the day, hoping the daylight would make it