– I began to pass little crosses made of sticks and string.

It was fully dark outside now, a blackness unrelieved by any shaft of human-created light.

Suzanne Adams has been an actor, director, teacher, and archenemy of Mountain Pine Beetles in the Rockies. She didn’t take writing semi-seriously until moving to Charlotte, in this “writingest state.” Her stories have won a few prizes in literary contests and have been published in Litmosphere, Main Street Rag, Memoirs Ink, and Minerva Rising. She is an enthusiastic member of Charlotte Writers Club, Charlotte Lit and North Carolina Writers Network, and is delighted to be included in this anthology.