I have been working on a novel set in the North Carolina mountains, and while I was at it a small story came loose from it and stood on its own.
It is called Keeper’s Night. On the first of February a woman goes down a path in an ice storm to do what her mother showed her, and comes back up, and writes it down. That is the whole of it. It is not a chapter of the book and you do not need the book to read it.
It lives on the author site, where the series fiction will live from here on:
What the Tide Brought In stays here, where it was born. This one belongs over there.