These Silent Woods

by Kimi Cunningham Grant

Your mother was absorbed in her book—she was like you, reading all the time, and getting so wrapped up in the story that sometimes it was like the world around her disappeared.

“Marcus Barnes was his name,” the guy says, “but I only ever heard people call him Scotland.”

CHILLSSSSSS

The thing about grace is that you don’t deserve it. You can’t earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.