The Broken Protector by Nicole Snow EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Nicole Snow
- Language: English
- Genre: Women’s Psychological Fiction
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LADY IN RED (DELILAH)
No one ever totally captures the stillness of a desolate highway leading
far, far away from the only city you know.
Oh, they might try.
They’ll tell you about the streaming cars slowing to a trickle, and then
to crawling ants scattered few and far between.
They’ll tell you about the wide-open sky, the way the yellow dotted line
on the road runs together into a single liquid stream.
They’ll tell you about the forests, the grass, the countless fences drifting
by.
And they’ll always mention the silence. Nothing but your tires grinding
on tarry asphalt and the occasional bump when you veer too close to the
shoulder.
What they won’t tell you, though?
What it feels like to be alone for the first time in your life.
What the stillness is when you can’t hear anyone else.
No slamming doors.
No whistles from the street below.
No phones blaring down the narrow halls of an apartment building full
of disjointed lives crammed together, each one insulated in its own little
bubble of humming refrigerators and televisions and notifications.
There’s just nothing.
Nothing but quiet stretching on for so long, so deep, that you start to
hear your own pulse.
It’s unlike anything I’ve ever known.
Somehow, it feels like a shower, rinsing off the dirt of big-city life and
making me ready to step into a whole new chapter of me.
I’m not sure if that’s what’s waiting in North Carolina.
I couldn’t even tell you what really made me take a job in a tiny town
I’ve never heard of, close enough to Raleigh to get decent internet but too
far to make a day drive to the beach worth the commute.
When I responded to the postage-stamp-sized ad in my neighborhood
circular for a K-4 teacher, I wasn’t actually expecting to get the job.
I have the degrees, but not much experience beyond a few supervised
part-time and substitute teaching gigs in inner-city schools.
Something like this—a full-time position with room and board covered
—would be a pipe dream back in New York.
Sure, I worked my ass off.
Perfect grades. Awards. Extracurriculars. Internships.
So maybe I was the most qualified candidate willing to move to a town
that’s barely a dot on the map and probably doesn’t have a single Uber.
But maybe, just maybe, no one else could stand the thought of living in
this much stillness.
Me? I could ride like this forever.
Just me and my ratty old Kia Sportage with everything I own piled in
the back, cruising into an endless red sunset.
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