One Carpenter Spent His Savings to Keep Five Young Siblings in His Woodshop

buttons into different piles on the table.

“Help me with the sheets, Eli,” I said.

We worked together in the yellow light of the single overhead bulb, pulling the white cotton flat and tucking it tight.

Eli did not speak again until the last bunk was finished. He laid the one-eared rabbit on the bottom pillow, smoothing the gray fur down with his small continue reading …