Lark Ascending
“The wind tugged at my hair, sending it whipping around my face. Brown strands like seaweed floated before my eyes, and I closed them. My nose stung with salt and sea spray, but I didn’t move.
The sand shifted beneath the soles of my feet, pulling away as the waves receded. There was no other feeling in the world like this one—that even the ground beneath me was fluid, changing, always adapting.
This was home. I slept in the decrepit house up on the cliff, making my bed on the creaky boards in t...he living room, but this shore, with the cliffs to the north and the aspen grove to the south, was my home. Where I belonged. The house on the hill was too full of ghosts.
I knew that the sea ought to feel haunted. It’s where my mother died, where she chose to bury her own body after my father became one of the monsters we so feared. For months he crept around the house, trying to find a way in, as we huddled on the floor, listening to the scratching and the howling screams.
One day the howling simply stopped.MoreLess
The sand shifted beneath the soles of my feet, pulling away as the waves receded. There was no other feeling in the world like this one—that even the ground beneath me was fluid, changing, always adapting.
This was home. I slept in the decrepit house up on the cliff, making my bed on the creaky boards in t...he living room, but this shore, with the cliffs to the north and the aspen grove to the south, was my home. Where I belonged. The house on the hill was too full of ghosts.
I knew that the sea ought to feel haunted. It’s where my mother died, where she chose to bury her own body after my father became one of the monsters we so feared. For months he crept around the house, trying to find a way in, as we huddled on the floor, listening to the scratching and the howling screams.
One day the howling simply stopped.MoreLess
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