Soleika Roth
Joined April 2021
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Lucky's Walk To The Great Whale
Lucky’s first breath was given to him by the kind chestnut horse he was named for. The first of his souls was having a grand time whooshing round the other earth, the one with less water. The second waited by the horse for the right moment. His father’s souls and his mother’s souls willed the breath of life through the horse; the bodies of Jean-Paul Christmas and Catherine Annie Christmas were crushed and flung too far from the carriage for any miracle to save them. The horse also toppled but didn’t land in the ditch. Snow stuck on the horse's eyelashes, yet his warm sweating body and strongly beating equine heart brought the beautifully swaddled baby back to life.
By Soleika Roth4 years ago in Fiction
