Olivia Gish

Orphan Tales

The summer of 1995 in the town of Chancelade, France was, unsurprisingly, hot. The residents of this town in the Dordogne were accustomed to the blistering months of summer. Occasionally, their prayers for a break in the heat were answered in the form of a rainstorm, but this summer there had been little rain so far. And so it was on a stifling July day in Chancelade when a young boy and girl found themselves in the shade of a large oak tree, trying in vain to catch whispers of a breeze that might cool them off, unaware that their lives were about to change forever.