Category:
Literary Fiction
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A young wanderer arrives in a small town. Striking up a friendship with an old woman, he lives outside in her shack and slowly finds everything he ever needed.
A contemporary fictional story, allegorical, told in the style of the fable, 'The Shack and the Storm' is a story about life and death. Sine begins to live in the old woman's shack and by watching the natural and human world around him, he falls into the beautiful and tragic cycle of life and death.
Comical, cathartic, 'The Shack and the Storm' is a fast read with themes and motifs that push the reader to consider their own position in the world.
Excerpt
Sine first saw the old woman sitting on her front porch in an old wooden chair covered in mildew. From the road, he looked at her as he walked up and down, towards town and back, around the wooded areas, the walks, and trailers and houses that filled in the corners of the city's limits. She saw him as a wanderer which he was, but felt the worry that comes with that name. To herself, she said, “He's staking out something to steal.” He was not; yet that is how it seemed.
He saw her a number of times thinking nothing and she saw him worrying for her safety. She gripped a cracked piece of wood even though he was a hundred yards away. In his worn clothes and mangy hair, like a wild animal he went. For three days he wandered around the town and the old woman's nerves failed each time she saw him. It grew to such a point that on the third day, after seeing him walking past her for the forth time, from her porch to the road, she screamed in her old cracked voice, “Come over here, boy!”
Sine looked to her like he was looking into the sun and pointed his finger to his chest. “Come here, boy!” she screeched. He started towards her fearing what she would say; her holding the same piece of wood, wondering why she brought a danger towards her. When Sine came to the grass and the borders of her yard, the old woman said, “Don't think I don't know what you are doing?”
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