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After the Snowy Day

When they wake in the morning the fire has died, and frost covers the windowpanes. New snow blankets the ground outside. The woman, her husband, and the boy push themselves out of bed. The man makes a fire while she readies water for boiling. Soon they drink coffee and hot chocolate, wrapping their hands around…

Blue

“Don’t go any further,” she shouts into the wind. The man holds his hand against the baseball cap on his head and smiles, thrusts his other arm out into the wind as if he might make himself into a sail of some sort, lift up off the ground, fly away from her. He motions for her…

Campfire Stories

One summer evening, after the sailboat is anchored and the campfire lit, they watch the beam from the lighthouse at the end of the pier. Sit on the beach near the fire. The girl and her siblings, all five of them, and her mother with curled brown hair, and the father too, put marshmallows and…