Into the Fall

by Tamara L. Miller

Sarah had once said that life was better when you acted like a sapling in the wind, twisting and bending when needed, so that the roots stay strong and whole.

What do you get if you play a country song backward? You get your house back, your job back, your car back . . . your husband back.

“The wilderness is probably the purest expression of beauty there is in the world. There’s no right, no wrong,

no good, no bad. The wild deals in life and death just as easily as we breathe. It’s primal and true. We can walk within it, even fool ourselves into believing we’ve tamed it, but disrespect it and it will swallow us.”

“The devil loves unspoken secrets. Especially those that fester in a man’s soul,”