# She Was Buried Beneath the Snow. He Was Buried Beneath the Truth.

one side of her coat.

Her hair had been cut short, just as in the photograph.

She looked older than seventeen and younger than forty-six.

Trauma does that.

It gathers every age a person has ever been and places them in one face.

The paramedics lowered her onto a stretcher.

I moved aside.

Claire reached toward me.

Her fingers were swollen and cut.

I took her continue reading …