Under the Silk Hibiscus by Alice J. Wisler

Author:Alice J. Wisler [Wisler, Alice J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas
Published: 2014-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Ken had left to go fight for our country. Papa had been taken from us as had Mama. Aunt Kazuko said we could go elsewhere if we had an elsewhere to go. “We stay here at Heart Mountain,” she said as she nibbled on a raisin cookie. “We stay because we have no one to take us in, and I know I can’t sing to make a career.”

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. With Ken gone, Lucy was supposed to be interested in me. She was supposed to want to sit under the moon with me beside her.

That night, as the moon refused to slip out from behind the clouds, Tom and I went to the washroom to brush our teeth and fill a bucket with water.

As he squeezed toothpaste onto the bristles of his toothbrush, Tom said, “I am glad you are still here, Nathan.”

What did he think? A spaceship would come whisk me away with the evening wind?

I should be so lucky.

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