The Blackout Book Club

by Amy Lynn Green

“I need to tell you both something,” she began, not sure what she would say next. “A story?” Rosa asked sleepily. “I like stories.” But this wasn’t one of her fairy tales, full of magic spells and hungry trolls, of curses and dragons and victorious knights. Or maybe it was. Wasn’t that one purpose of stories? The best ones might be about good and evil in fictional lands, but they were meant to help people recognize them in the real world. And maybe even teach them how to respond with wisdom and courage.