He Told Me To Leave My Own Mountain Home Until Strangers Arrived To A Lesson They Never Forgot

the same way he had earned everything else, which is to say by getting up in the dark for four decades and not complaining about it where anyone could hear.

The mornings up there were cold enough to sting his lungs awake. He liked that. He would take his coffee out onto the porch and stand there in the blue light before sunrise and watch the fog sit continue reading …