Cover photo by Jonatan Pie. Downloaded from Unsplash
Marcia is seventeen, and along with Darryl, has moved south in Alaska to attend the Anchorage campus of the Alaska State University. She wants to pursue her dream, but will it pursue her instead?
I want to thank Malady, once again, for his help checking through this story for the many errors I frequently insert, as well as listening to my sometimes completely crazy ideas about the direction of the story and telling me how crazy they are!
Stephen
had stitches on his temple, and Mage had heard from Bruce that the
doctor had a bit of repair work to do on the temporal muscle below.
It had been cut a bit. The bone had a hairline fracture in it, but
the skin and muscle had cushioned it enough that it hadn’t been any
worse. A concussion had occurred, which was likely why Stephen
didn’t remember too much of the incident.
“I
can imagine,” Mage replied. “Can we talk a bit?”
Stephen
beckoned her inside, but she said, “Maybe out in the garden?”
He
followed her out to the garden bench. It was a typical iron and 1x3
board bench, but instead of being in a flower garden, it was in
between
giant cabbages, each with heads over
a foot in diameter, and pumpkins that would end up being over 100 or
more pounds because of the incredible growing conditions in the
Matanuska Valley.