Für Elise It’s so cold. And white. As far as the eye can see, which isn’t far. My fingers and toes feel like they’ve seceded from the United Appendages of Tom. Beneath my thermal headgear, I’m sure my lips and eyelids have turned a lovely cyan – the color you might […]

Skating The recent snowfall made tracking Brian and Connie child’s play. Anyone could tell the difference between the teens’ tracks and the shuffle of the dead. They had left Alexandria without warning so Darryl volunteered to bring them back. Step, step, step… step… shuffle, step, step, shuffle – their footsteps reminded him of Morse code. These […]

Snow Ice, cracking and buckling, broke the pristine silence. A pair of size four footprints led away from the hole in the river, up the riverbank, and through the woods. Those footprints belonged to me and I was running as fast as my little legs would carry me. It was half a mile between […]