An envisioning. 1997, and four o’clock on a winter’s afternoon at the cottage in Glenwillow Falls.

Oh to be here.

Back home after a walk along the lake. Everything drenched, with the housekeeper helping first with the jacket and then the galoshes. Ohio fine, but Mariposa County way better. Warm and sunny and all that, but children who like freezing their fingers off and living where lakes ice up instead of drying up with the end of the wet season. Getting sick, needing help and stuck. No one about to move to California and Ohio and a life staring at sleet instead.

My new piece of short fiction. Please click through the link to read the rest if you like.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1997-and-four-oclock

Salute for Freedom, advertisement for Bianchini-Férier, Harpers Bazaar, August 1945. Erwin Blumenfield, photographer (1897-1969). Image © Estate of the photographer. Fair use license. via https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/feb/20/smuggling-art-into-fashion-erwin-blumenfelds-high-style-in-pictures?page=with:img-7 though I found it here on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/thats.so.classic/p/DLr4wiQgK4U/?hl=en

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