Miracle Creek Christmas by Krista Jensen

Author:Krista Jensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadow Mountain Publishing
Published: 2020-08-19T17:44:21+00:00

Riley shut her front door and watched Dalton’s taillights disappear into the night. She closed her front curtains and tossed her little sack of pastry into the garbage can. Her boots came off next. She flung them into the hall to pick up later.

She pressed her hands to her pounding head as she headed to the kitchen, her bare feet cold on the hard linoleum. Grabbing the bottle of Tylenol out of the cupboard and filling a glass with water, she walked to her art room and stared at the easel. At the sketches she’d attempted, of Mary’s face, and Joseph’s, and the shepherd.

She downed two pills, not taking her eyes off the photo of baby Jesus. There was no face to study; the glare from Mark’s old flash had wiped it out.

Setting down the empty glass, she picked up the charcoal pencil and grabbed the photo. Taking a deep breath, she sketched the manger, the swaddling and the hay, a round head. She paused, her heart pounding.

Next to her sketch lines, she drew a larger, faint circle. Ears. Chin. Fleshed out an infant’s head and ran the pencil line in a swift arc from ear to ear to place the eyes. But she stopped.

What shape were the eyes? And how wide? Asleep or awake? Happy? Surprised?

Wise? Could babies’ eyes be wise? This baby?

She put her hand over her own eyes and sighed. She took two steps and dropped down into the desk chair.

You should have seen the one old Rivers used to put up off the highway, all lit up every year, cramming that down our throats.

Riley’s jaw clenched.

Ended after Mark got himself burned up.

She squeezed her eyes tight, sick.

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