Blaste from the Past by Jessa Kane EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jessa Kane
- Language: English
- Genre: Time Travel Romance
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Shiloh
I STARE DOWN at the chipped blue nail polish on my toes as I walk out into
the pasture, nothing but the sound of crickets chirping all around me, a stray
bullfrog croaking in the distance. The sun is clawing at the horizon, trying to
hang on for a few precious moments, but three steps later, it’s gone and dusk
spreads like a shroud over the green, rolling pasture in the distance. As
always, my destination is the Wanting Tree.
It’s out of place in the center of the pasture, a mighty oak reaching up to
the sky, slightly gnarled and a little spooky. There is a hollow in the center of
it that was its own universe when I was a child. Dark and mysterious. Now, at
eighteen, I still hide inside sometimes and write stories in my notebook.
Stories no one will ever see that take me out of this place. They take me far,
far away. And I’ve never needed to get further away than I do right now.
I drop down onto the grass in my black funeral dress, leaning against the
trunk of the oak and sliding my bare toes through the grass. Settling the
notebook in my lap, I tilt my head back and sigh at the purple sky, thinking of
my grandmother, who we laid to rest today.
Her final words still echo in my head.
Believe in the Wanting Tree, Shi.
Brow puckering, I doodle those words on a fresh page. My grandmother
has been telling me about the same legend since my mother and I came to
live with her ten years ago, freshly abandoned by my father. This is how the
story goes: Once upon a time, a ranch hand was searching for his soul mate,
convinced she was out there, just out of reach. He went to a fortune teller
who revealed some bad news; the ranch hand’s lover didn’t exist in this time
and place. They were star-crossed, living in different layers of existence.
Heartbroken by the news, the ranch hand fit himself inside the hollow of the
Wanting Tree and cried out for his unreachable love, only to vanish into the
thin air.
My grandmother was convinced that the ranch hand time traveled to his
soul mate, whichever plane she was existing on. And she knew the legend to
be true, because she’d been standing in the pasture when the distraught man
disappeared. Or so she said.
Believe in the Wanting Tree, Shi.
“I wish I could, Grandma,” I murmur, wondering if she can hear me.
Hoping she can. Since she passed away a week ago, I’ve been talking to her
often, the loneliness turning heavier and heavier in my breast. My mother
works all hours as an emergency room nurse and even when she’s home,
she’s haunted. Quiet. Sad. We barely speak. I had two friends, but their
families have money and they’ve gone on graduation trips to Europe before
college starts in the fall. I’m well and truly alone now.
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