She already knows it’s me when I knock on her door, even before she answers. Only…

They close the doors at nine, after the last reader has gone home. The librarian checks…

They nest in the spruce trees above my house. I see them sometimes, when I come…

The crowd has already begun to gather by the time I reach the market place. Everything…

I’m making tea when they arrive. They knock on my door, although anywhere else they would…

My breath hangs like a cloud in the still air when I step outside. The grass…

The birds are flying south now. When I go for walks in the morning with my…

Everyone else is asleep. The captain confined us to our quarters the moment we stepped on…

At midnight, the clock in the hall chimes twelve times. I listen to it, waiting until…

The mountains rise above us, black against the blue skies, against the white clouds driven on…