Under a blood moon, that was how Tara went down in the end. The old chestnut mare sure knew how to make an exit. She knew how to do most things, having lived 35 years entirely on her own terms.
The builder boyfriend and I stood speechless in the field afterwards, marooned in that strange moonlight.

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