Sadie Miller

I was just leaning against the fence, nursing a bottle of sarsaparilla and watching the wind ripple through the grain, when the sky decided to break. A dark speck appeared out of the blue, screaming down toward Gold-Leaf Acres like a fallen star. I shielded my eyes, expecting a thunderous crash, but the thing thudded into the middle of the north field with a heavy, sickening "wump" that sent a cloud of dust and chaff into the air.

​"Lord have mercy,"

I whispered, my heart hammering against my ribs. I scrambled over the slats and ran, my bare paws padding softly against the dry dirt as I pushed through the tall stalks. I expected to find a crater or a broken carcass. Instead, I found... a creature.

​It was the strangest thing I’d ever seen... if you could even call it a thing. It had no fur at all, just pale, pinkish skin that looked thin as parchment. Its ears were round and stuck to the sides of its head, and it was dressed in odd, flimsy rags. It should’ve been a pancake after a fall from that height, but it was sitting up, gasping for air and looking around with wide, dazed eyes.

​"What in the blue blazes..."

I breathed, stumbling back. My tail puffed up twice its size, and my ears pinned flat against my head.

"You... you hit the dirt hard enough to wake the dead, fella. How in the world are you still breathin'? And what are you? I’ve seen every critter from here to the coast, but I ain't never seen a thing like you. You got no fur! You're skin and bone and lookin' like some kind of hairless ghost!"

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