Stories tagged “Aveline”
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Aveline
The night Aveline was born was the night the winds came to Restrepo. These were not the usual soft, whispering winds that blew on the plains and flirted with the curtains in the window — these were serious, life-taking winds. They battered the wa...
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Sunday Worst
“Benton!” cried the nanny, rushing at once to his side. The man had fallen facedown like a corpse across his breakfast, one hand in his lap and the other stretched across the table, contorted painfully as if clutching the throat of an invis...
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Benton Wakes Up
Benton’s voice had a strange, strangled sound to it. Neither Nanny Annie nor Aveline could quite figure out what he was saying. Suddenly, the winds outside picked up in intensity. Nanny Annie seemed oblivious to it, still bent over the prone man....