Sometimes I think about making a patch that's says "Dissociation Station" and has a couch or a house or something on it. The options are endless. A bus stop, a car, a sink of dishes, a full laundry bin, a big bulky pair of headphones...
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Sometimes The Mountain Buries You is a queer novella about the things that threaten your attempt at a much-needed quiet life. Check out the about page here.
You really, really hope Sheppard doesn't have to come into town for the next week. He doesn't. But Murre is very, very useful and you find yourself hoping Sheppard doesn't have to come into town for the next couple of weeks—though Murre is in town only about half of the time. They're on lamb watch the other half.
But then the ranches start filling with the usual hands and you find Sheppard on an examination table again. There's quite the gouge out of his side.
"Did you fall off a cliff?" you exclaim.
He smiles. "How'd you guess?"
links and search terms from writing 'You really, really hope Sheppard doesn't have to come into town for the next week.'
- https://www.ontario.ca/page/sheep-reproduction-basics-and-conception-rates "Sheep reproduction basics and conception rates"
most of the past few chapters' research has been figuring out what actual months and weeks Sheppard & You takes place in and then letting it be when the timelines don't quite match up.
