When Winter Comes by V. A. Shannon

Author:V. A. Shannon [Shannon, V. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

I lay down my pen, and close my journal. It is full dark with no moon, and the night air is thick with the summer heat. A moth flutters around the little pool of light where I sit with my candle. I pick up my journal, and make my way through the house to our bedroom.

I reach in under our bed. Here are the winter blankets, stored in canvas bags with cedar chips to keep away the moths. I move them to one side, and open up my hidey-hole—a loose floorboard. This is where I keep my journal. Perhaps it is a foolish hiding place in the house of a master carpenter, but Jacob would never concern himself with looking under the bed.

I take out what lies there already, and hold it to my face for a moment. A square of ragged cloth, no hint of the pretty pink color it once was. Wrapped in it are five silver dollars; a much worn and folded scrap of paper—what might once have been a drawing of bluebells; and a faded lock of hair, tied up with a snip of faded pink thread.

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