Poetry Stories: The Novelist

Chapter 22. Sometimes you had to push through.

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If the tea basket was not going to reveal its whereabouts, not even in Laura’s imagination, she might as well move along and pull out the kettle. Sometimes you had to push through, didn’t you? Even if you didn’t have the tools to accompany you on your way? Something would appear. An idea, a different tool, a woodsman bearing rescue tea equipment. She laughed to herself, to think of Red Riding Hood’s face-the-wolf dilemma being solvable by tea and biscuits.

—L.L. Barkat, from chapter 22 of The Novelist