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Chapter 51

What was taking Mama so long? We’d be blown halfway across Union County if she didn’t hurry up!

“Jackson, watch the kids!” I shouted, pushing Noah into his arms.

Noah looked stricken.

You’ll be fine, I assured him.

Don’t go, Daddy!

I have to!

“Daddy!” he shouted.

“Wiley, what are you doing?” Jackson demanded in a high-pitched voice.

“Just watch them!” I ordered.

I turned away and ran across the yard as lightning flashed and thunder rumbled angrily across the sky. I glanced at the county road out front and saw a funnel-shaped darkness reaching down from the agitated sky, a swirling mass of coal black that tapered down to a small tentacle reaching for the ground but still not quite succeeding.

A tornado.

A goddamn tornado, just across the road.

Just like that.