Taking a Writing Break to Write

I’m taking a short break to cogitate on the next chapter of Shane. Spent a couple of days working on a short story. It’s based on the Aesop fable, “The Lion and the Mouse.” Here’s a taste:

“Her mother wanted to kill her at birth. Her father refused. He said he saw a spark of something worth keeping in her eyes. Whatever he had seen, it hadn’t developed into anything Shanthians found useful. Erris often felt it would have been better to have died at birth. There was never a time that she rememb...