Melted

A Tale of The Sun’s Heart

Image by Adam Derewecki from Pixabay

The river has been frozen for years. No one knows why the frigid winds came down from the mountains a generation past and never went away again. Older people speak in longing tones of flowers and warm sunshine, but younger people have come to believe these things were the stuff of fantasies.

Aviana cannot remember a time before the ice. She was born about a year before it came. Her…