Without further ado, let's rejoin our atypical Amish girl, Katie, on the trail to Texas from her home in Gasthof Village, Indiana.
. Instantly, a choir of yips encircled her with their echoing
sounds. Katie froze and scanned the world around her. Nothing was out of place
and there wasn’t one tell-tale tail, or much less a hair, giving rise to any
suspicion of her stumbling into the midst of a pack of coyotes.
The sky to the
west was a splash of pastel colors and a shudder raced down her spine as the
incessant yipping continued in varying octaves. Glancing over her shoulder,
Katie pointed her nose skyward into the falling darkness and let out a
lingering howl. At once, the coyotes silenced before filling the skies with a
chorus of haunting howls in answer.
“What beautiful music they make,”
Katie mused, continuing down the trail and pushing thoughts of her
brokenhearted mother down deep in her soul. From seemingly nowhere, a gray pup
scampered across the trail in front of her. To rejoin the pack of writers over at WEWRIWA, click here!
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Loved it! Who would think of singing back to the coyotes?! Well, your intrepid heroine of course. Terrific snippet.
ReplyDeleteHaha! Thanks Veronica!! :-D I'm glad you stopped by today!
DeleteThe do sing sweetly, don't they.... Katie strikes me as a strong girl, exactly the kind of girl needed to survive in this world she lives in.
ReplyDeleteThank you Eden! I'm so excited for you to see how Katie's strengths are tested on this journey. Thank you for stopping by and spending part of your mother's day with me!
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