justdustwords

 Excerpt from my novel FATE.   Edwina's Curse                            “I’m telling it as it happened … not dressing it up, but maybe … I will allow myself to dance a bit with it.”        In Captain Berek’s absence, Edwina’s condition worsened. She seldom ventured outdoors, and when she did, it was only as far as the garden gate or along the cliff path where the north wind came cold off the sea at Devil’s Leap. She spent long hours in her husband’s work shed, at the back of their stone house, reading his old logbooks, tracing her fingers over his handwriting as though she might feel his presence through the ink, mumbling to herself and asking…   “Why … why … you damp fool … why?”        She spoke not only to the man she married ... but to the seaman he was ... a man who carried...