for the first time.As a special treat, Serena Jane woke me up early that morning and fixed me a proper breakfast—cereal, toast, and a glass of milk. “Be glad Dad remembered groceries,” she said, sliding the food across the table to me. “Half the time I go to school with a rumbling belly, but I’ve...
Some of those creatures left the world by the power of her hands and some as the result of a higher law, but Jo grieved them all. Some days she got to thinking the marsh was nothing more than an open wound sunk in the flesh of the earth, a festering raw place where the here and now met the great ...
Hazel had planted herself fast as a weed by Fergus’s side and told Mercy to take her car for the night. Though Mercy tried to refuse, she was secretly grateful for the favor, since her body longed for sleep the way a hungry man’s stomach demanded food. She didn’t think Hazel had heard the news ye...
