Three Green Notebooks Left in a Cedar Chest on Elm Street

seemed completely content to let the world slide by, even if it meant Gale and Russell took the very ground from under his feet.

I walked back to my house, the dry grass swishing against my shoes.

By seven o’clock, the wind had picked up, rattling the loose pane in my living room window. I sat in my armchair by the lamp, the blue envelope resting on continue reading …