The Wolf Sat Beside the Lake for Three Days, and No One Understood Why

window, where snow streaked sideways across the glass. “We were arguing. That’s why he looked over.”

“About what?”

Her throat worked before she answered. “Mom. College. Him. Everything.”

Rachel Keene had died three years earlier after a sudden aneurysm. Samuel survived by turning every hour into work. June survived by making plans in places her father continue reading …