The wooded landscape was interspersed with patches of sunlit farmland filled with fruit orchards and fields of golden grain dotted with giant bales of hay. It wasn’t long before Mary held on to the steering wheel and her concentration as she fought a combination of hunger ...
A deep chill had settled into her aching bones last winter, and it had never gone away. Despite all her best efforts, her body was wearing out. She knew part of the reason why was her spirit was as worn as her flesh. There used to be some things that mattered to her more t...