Red Rabbit

by Alex Grecian

“You saying the trees killed these folks?” Tom said. “Now how the hell would a tree kill somebody?”

“I think maybe this place is a big spiderweb,” Moses said. “It pulls on a person’s sadness and they get stuck to it.”

“Well, there’s the law and then there’s justice. They ain’t always the same thing.”

Moses had once joked that Ned couldn’t see an elephant if it was right in front of him, but since neither of them knew exactly what an elephant looked like Ned didn’t consider it one of Moses’s wittier comments.

“None of those,” Moses said. “She doesn’t belong to anybody.” “And yet, by my count, she’s traveling with four men?” “Yes, ma’am.” The woman shook her head at the ground and clicked her tongue. “What is this world coming to?

One of the ranch hands gasped. It was bad luck to say the witch’s name out loud.