Tucking the unruly curls fanning her freckled face, she walked along the sidelines, chasing another dusky eve of anonymous autum night.. Browny clusters of leaves crumbled under her bare feet, smudging the mist of yesterdays, shadowing her tomorrows with them.

She stopped at the very familar rock bed holding the Ocean apart from the shore, which was all along her destination. Setting apart the worn out journal in her hands near her torned sweater, her gaze locked with the scarlet hues in the sky, as if it was blushing under the heated...