When Crickets Cry

by Charles Martin

BURTON was once a prospering town, but they flooded it to generate hydro-electric power for the rest of the state. The locals didn’t care.

I knew that cardinals mated for life, so he wouldn’t be going anywhere. “Don’t worry, sir. She’ll be okay. I’ll take good care of her.”

Those two stayed in that nest outside my window throughout middle school and high school. And every day they sang their love song to each other.

tuchus?”

interesting to see a Yiddish word used in a book that has a lot of Christian references