Deep River Burning by Donelle Dreese

Author:Donelle Dreese [Dreese, Donelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781937178628
Amazon: 1937178625
Publisher: WiDo Publishing
Published: 2014-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

She didn’t sleep well, but she didn’t expect to, so she wasn’t disappointed or even overly tired. The morning energized her when she saw that it was turning out to be the kind of day she loved, sunny and windy with large gray-trimmed white clouds passing shadows over the sunlit surfaces. She walked down to the bus station with a spirit of hope inside of her as she considered the possibilities of the new life she might lead. She could be anyone she wanted to be.

The night before, as she was trying to fall asleep, she thought about where she wanted to go after Norfolk. Barely a day went by when she didn’t think of Josh and all the stories he told her about the places where he wanted to go. He told her once about coastal North Carolina, how he read about an island where there are wild horses and a graveyard of ships and remote shell-filled beaches. Plus, she knew that Rachel Carson spent time in North Carolina studying the sea environment, which inspired Carson to write the book Denver had been reading. She also remembered Aunt Rosemary’s postcard of the loggerhead turtle. At the bus station, she bought a map of the southeast coastline and a ticket heading toward east North Carolina.

The bus was scheduled to leave at 10 in the morning and the station was filled with people. When bus 529 to Wilmington announced for passengers to board, she was one of many who gathered their belongings and entered the overly air-conditioned rows of seats. She took her normal spot on the right-hand side and watched the bus fill up after her. When the bus was nearly full, a frazzled woman, who didn’t look to be more than thirty-five, entered the bus. She looked concerned when she saw there were only two seats available. One next to a large man in the back of the bus reading a newspaper through some black framed reading glasses, and one next to Denver. Denver instinctively moved her bags from the seat and put them on the floor in front of her. The woman sat down, heavily exhaled an exasperated “thank you,” and put her bags on the floor in front of her while holding another in her arms.

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