In the barn
I had been stuck at my uncle’s farmhouse for more than a month now, and it wasn’t suiting me well being a city girl and all. I hated the food. It was too fresh and smelled of animals. We didn’t have a shower, and instead used a tub and had bucket baths. There was no one to provide any sort of company and the lack of AC meant that the house got blisteringly hot. Unable to take it anymore, I asked Uncle to drive me back, but he said he couldn’t because the cows were going down with something or...