During A Violent Storm, A Woman Sheltered Four Wolves — By Morning, Her Home Was Unrecognizable

my father left, and she had been perfectly fine.

I did not think too carefully about the curtains she had always kept drawn on the forest side of the house.

I had been there three weeks when the storm came.

I had watched it build over two days—a deepening of the cold, a change in the quality of the light, clouds coming in from the northeast in layers,continue reading …