This is dark! At first, anyway.
For 20 years, a girl has survived in the wilds, killing and skinning her own rabbits?
and this Bible-bearing woman has searched for 30 years for this site.... was the little girl part of some cult that got exterminated, and she alone survived?
So many questions and possibilities. Your short stories are always a treasure trove to unpack.
The tiny creature recognizes the satchel and the name and "eagerly" approaches the woman, so I'm taking this as a happy ending.
Coincidentally, we finished the final season of The Sopranos Friday night, and I am still in shock. The way it all goes suddenly black - the way it might if a bullet stops human life in an instant.
Very dramatic.
What a wonderful but wearying TV series. Sooo much violence. So many fatherless children.
Brothers, nephews, sons, girlfriends: nobody is safe. "Family" first means the mafia family first. Everyone else is at risk of being a casualty to protect that life of crime.
How did I just watch six seasons of this?
Are you conscious of any news stories or historical incidents inspiring your "Claire" story?
No need to tell me what they were, if there were any....