Hope & Kindness · fiction
Three Ears of Corn
Eleanor Whitaker did not cry when Silas Montgomery caught her stealing corn. She simply stood between the tall green stalks, three ears pressed against her stomach, and looked directly at the rifle in his hand. The late-summer sun was falling behind the hills of Harland County, turning the western sky orange and copper. Cicadas hummed in the...
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- Hope & Kindness
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- Adult readers
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- 6
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- fiction
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