Better Than Weird (2011)
“On Monday morning, when Aaron looked out, the garden was white.
A blanket of white, he thought. He had read that in a book somewhere. That’s what the garden looked like. As if somebody had tossed a blanket over everything. Or like one of those rooms in the movies where all the furniture was covered by sheets because nobody was going to be home for a long time.
A huge maple tree stood in the back neighbor’s yard. It looked stark and black and bare, except for the snow that lay on its branches an...d the mound of leaves near the top. The leaves were part of a squirrel’s nest. Even though the squirrel lived in the neighbor’s tree, Aaron thought of it as his.
His squirrel wasn’t like all the other squirrels. It was different. It had a flash of white at the end of its black tail that made it easy to recognize.
In the fall he had watched his squirrel chew twigs off the tree, carry them to the top and stash them into a pile in the fork made by three branches. It collected leaves and huge mouthfuls of dry grasses to add to the growing structure.MoreLess
A blanket of white, he thought. He had read that in a book somewhere. That’s what the garden looked like. As if somebody had tossed a blanket over everything. Or like one of those rooms in the movies where all the furniture was covered by sheets because nobody was going to be home for a long time.
A huge maple tree stood in the back neighbor’s yard. It looked stark and black and bare, except for the snow that lay on its branches an...d the mound of leaves near the top. The leaves were part of a squirrel’s nest. Even though the squirrel lived in the neighbor’s tree, Aaron thought of it as his.
His squirrel wasn’t like all the other squirrels. It was different. It had a flash of white at the end of its black tail that made it easy to recognize.
In the fall he had watched his squirrel chew twigs off the tree, carry them to the top and stash them into a pile in the fork made by three branches. It collected leaves and huge mouthfuls of dry grasses to add to the growing structure.MoreLess
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