Under a Gilded Moon

by Joy Jordan-Lake

“I reckon the gall for him now is having to work for outsiders he hates for getting richer every day.

There’s days for wings like eagles, but most of life’s just the walking and trying not to faint facedown in the mud.”

“Indeed. Although given my own work, I should point out the ravaging of the natural resources. These people chose to desecrate their land.” Lilli was no social reformer, but it did strike her that they might have had less choice in the matter than a man like Madison Grant, who’d never once in his life needed to cut down a tree or plant a crop for his next meal.