(DOWNLOAD) "Honeymoon (Short Story)" by Shenandoah # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Honeymoon (Short Story)
- Author : Shenandoah
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
Description
In September of 1924, Caleb Sypher had no money for a honeymoon, so he gave his new wife, Emma, his cane fly rod and took her down to the Clinch River for a fishing lesson and a picnic. They entered the river beneath the "no scavaging" sign, where the cascades ran deep and swift around an old train trestle, reflecting the deep turquoise sky. Small rainbow trout chased each other around the deep pools, flashing silver in the sun; native trout hung below the cascades, steady against the strong current, still and gray as bedrock. Hundreds of blue butterflies clouded above the cone flowers and chicory that grew out of the limestone bank. On both sides of the river, old mountains folded softly into each other. Patched with swirls of yellow, rust and green trees, they reminded Emma of the knitted afghan her mother spread across the foot of her childhood bed. The night before, Emma's mother had sat at the foot of that bed, explaining what would happen on her wedding night. She opened the family medical counselor to the chapter on "Love and Marriage," called love making "sexual congress" and warned Emma that feeding her new husband calves' feet jelly, dandelion or too much salt would lead to reckless amatory feelings, causing irreparable mischief.