"Follow You Home" - G - Road to Avonlea
Written for day_by_drabble Midwinter Challenge.
Prompt:
Winter was the worst. Any other time of year he could work hard and forget that his pa was gone and his mother had died, but in winter, when work was scarce and the wind was cold, he always remembered that he was alone.
He heard of a shipyard on the other side of the bay that needed tar boys so he had shoved his fiddle inside his coat and set off. He had been walking for an hour when the dog started following him.
It was still winter and it was still cold, but he was no longer alone.
Prompt:
Winter was the worst. Any other time of year he could work hard and forget that his pa was gone and his mother had died, but in winter, when work was scarce and the wind was cold, he always remembered that he was alone.
He heard of a shipyard on the other side of the bay that needed tar boys so he had shoved his fiddle inside his coat and set off. He had been walking for an hour when the dog started following him.
It was still winter and it was still cold, but he was no longer alone.