One summer evening, after the sailboat is anchored and the campfire lit, they watch the beam from the lighthouse as they sit on the beach. The girl and her siblings, all five of them, and her mother with curled brown hair, and the father too, put marshmallows and hotdogs on sticks for roasting as a…
Category: short fiction
Entering the Caldera
The bison arrive just after the father walks to the river with his camera and the mother and boy sit and eat snacks on a bench near the car. It seems as if all of sudden the bison are there, sauntering with heads swaying, between the cars and up along the sidewalk. The mother and…
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