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Ursa Had a Horse

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Ursa tale # 13 of 60

_Ursa Had a Horse

_____Ursa had a horse. A chestnut. It looked a little wild. Ursa stood and bit her nails.


“I could ride that horse,” she said.

She looked at the horse’s back. The outline of a saddle appeared. It became a patch of gauzy leather. The saddle thing shimmered like the gap between two storm clouds. Ursa looked, and the saddle grew stirrups.

Ursa imagined mounting the horse. She imagined the horse galloping, racing across the cornfields, stumbling over the plowing, getting tangled in a barbed wire fence. Stirrups getting caught in wire, pulling the horse in, making a knot of horse and wire and then lightning striking and the smell of burnt hair.

Ursa walked beside the horse.

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Ursa Had a Horse

Ursa had a horse. A chestnut. It looked a little wild. Ursa stood and bit ver nails.

“I could ride that horse,” ve said.

Ve looked at the horse’s back. The outline of a saddle appeared. It became a patch of gauzy leather. The saddle thing shimmered like the gap between two storm clouds. Ursa looked, and the saddle grew stirrups.

Ursa imagined mounting the horse. Ve imagined the horse galloping, racing across the cornfields, stumbling over the plowing, getting tangled in a barbed wire fence. Stirrups getting caught in wire, pulling the horse in, making a knot of horse and wire and then lightning striking and the smell of burnt hair.

Ursa walked beside the horse.

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Ursa Had a Horse

_____Ursa had a horse. A chestnut. It looked a little wild. Ursa stood and bit his nails.


“I could ride that horse,” he said.

He looked at the horse’s back. The outline of a saddle appeared. It became a patch of gauzy leather. The saddle thing shimmered like the gap between two storm clouds. Ursa looked, and the saddle grew stirrups.

Ursa imagined mounting the horse. He imagined the horse galloping, racing across the cornfields, stumbling over the plowing, getting tangled in a barbed wire fence. Stirrups getting caught in wire, pulling the horse in, making a knot of horse and wire and then lightning striking and the smell of burnt hair.

Ursa walked beside the horse.

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posted 23 January 2012