The Trail of Tears

The true story of how the segments of highway between Austin and Abilene came to be known among skunks of central Texas as the Trail of Tears is both mysterious and tragic. The facts have become clouded by time owing to the general distraction and lethargy toward documentation that has prevailed since the events. Indeed, historians have long sought to uncover the dark deeds that surround the highway construction and won it this grim title: the acts of heartless betrayal, the power struggles, the totemistic rituals that now darken the minds of every skunk clan dwelling along the scrubby, barren pass – the details of which are revealed now to you, secret friend, that the spilt blood of so many may not be forgotten.

It began in the days when many youths of the Spilogale skunk clan began increasingly to chafe under the uninteresting lot that their lives had become. Unrest simmered and, like many other cultural shifts, parent-teen arguments brought strife to nearly every household. Shifty groups of adolescents gathered murmuring and sniggering at the edges of the dens. Their growing desperation and the sense of being helplessly trapped gave rise to their cynicism and precarious quests for new experiences. As the malaise wore on, some began referring to themselves as the Lost Generation, a title applied with a mildly wry pessimism at first but later came to haunt the dark-eyed wanderers.
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