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

married, the names of her children, the fact of her death. The war years were mentioned in the family only in passing, in the oblique way of a generation that had survived things they did not find useful to describe.

The memory came back to me the way memories do when the mind has been waiting for the right context to release them.

I had been eight years continue reading …