Diamonds at Dawn by Catalina Claussen

Author:Catalina Claussen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Progressive Rising Phoenix Press, LLC
Published: 2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

Ama, are you there?

What’s it like?

What’s it like to be freed of your twisted body,

Swept up and scattered on the wind?

Is it lonely?

Know what’s funny?

Did you know I can see you

At night?

Of course you do.

Everyone knows that’s when the stars come out.

(found in ditch on the other side of Cold Creek)

Chapter 15

Alice’s venison stew is in the final stages of cooking. The air is filled with the sharp scent of browned deer meat, potatoes, carrots, and onions simmering in a tomato broth spiced with laurel and rosemary. The perfume of fresh baked bread surrounds us.

“Sure smells good,” Norm says, inhaling his coffee, the stew, the bread.

There’s one thing I do know—Grandma A’s good cooking.

Grandma Alice sets a steaming bowl of stew in front of Sicheii and a side plate of hot bread, quickly followed by servings for Norm and me.

“Thank you,” Sicheii says, nodding.

Sicheii sits strong and silent next to me, a boulder wedged in the creek bottom while floodwaters pass. Norm sighs and says, “Ahzi, if there’s one thing I know, the truth is like dog poop. You can deny it all you want, but it’s still clinging to your boot.”

I laugh, “Gee thanks, Norm. Where’d you learn that one?”

“The great outdoors.”

I know he’s trying to make me laugh, but his joke heaps more doubt on Maverick and whatever it is between Chad and me. And in the place where I-don’t-care used to live I find myself wanting. I want to smell the scent of the wind in Maverick’s hair and taste the salt on his skin. I need to drive out the images of what might be happening to him in jail—and when, or if, it will end. Then I see it again, in my mind’s eye, the thick red paint pots in the snow, the scent of iron in the air.

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