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

would be a pause, and then the conversation would move on, because there are things that can be acknowledged only briefly before the ordinary world reasserts itself.

I did not leave the house that spring, or that summer, or the one after. The repairs took longer than expected, as repairs always do, but when they were finished the house was sound in continue reading …