“You go ahead, dear,” she groaned. “I don’t feel much like eating.” Josephine ate alone, hoping Aunt Agatha would perk up later in the morning, but when she returned to the room and tried to interest her aunt in any of a dozen potential diversions for the day, Aunt Agatha ...
She buzzed around the house in a ferment of activity, infecting everyone, especially Matilda, with her spirit of excitement. “I only wish I could come with you,” the older woman smiled at her glowing cheeks and her sparkling eyes. “Well, why don’t y...
He pried open one eyelid, then immediately closed it again against the stabbing pain in his head. He rested his aching skull on the cold floor boards under him and labored to think. He wondered if his injuries might have blinded him, because only pure blackness squeezed between his eyelids when h...
She fingered the soft, worn fabric of the quilt top, and only when she heard the haunting rush of wind in the tree limbs outside did she remember the day before with the shudder of a nightmare passing into the mists of memory. She crawled out of bed, threw around her shoulders the woolen shawl ha...