When the wind picked up and rattled his leaves , he realized he still had a voice .
Why ? he whispered , shaking his branches in a fury . Why have you done this to me ?
On the dock , she stood still and listened to the rushing breeze , a smile playing on her lips .
Amanda Crum is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in Barren Magazine , Eastern Iowa Review , and several anthologies , including Beyond the Hill and Two Eyes Open . She is the author of two novels , The Fireman ’ s Daughter and The Darkened Mirror . Her chapbook of horrorinspired poetry , The Madness in Our Marrow , was shortlisted for a Bram Stoker Award nomination in 2015 , while her story “ A Shimmer In The Parlor ” was a finalist for the J . F . Powers Prize in Short Fiction in 2019 . She currently lives in Kentucky with her husband and two children .
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