The dawn lies heavily upon the Farm under a sky of clotted cream, the not-quite-day swaddled in a weighty silence broken only by the repeated call of an unknown bird. Its call is loud, insistent, forceful – an unyielding demand for a brighter day than this dawn promises. This dawn is pregnant with dusky light, pregnant with expectations of a warm, gentle, nourishing spring rain, pregnant with unfulfilled promise.
The day lies quietly within this womb, patiently waiting to be born.
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About Gavin Stevens
Humptulips County is the wholly fictional on-line residence of Stephen Ellis, a would-be writer, an avid fan of William Faulkner and his Yoknapatawpha County, and a retired lawyer.
