Yellow Mama E zine

Girl in the Lake’s Nightly Song

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by Steve Cartwright

 

           Every night the lake below Hebrim's ramshackle cabin sang to him, always at 2, haunting him, making sleep impossible, starting with the sound of cold water sluicing over jagged rocks in the middle of the onyx lake, then a girl's forlorn song rose from the deep mud, alone, begging the crazed old man to join her, like he'd vowed to do so long ago, join his beloved, in the cold mud, so the insane and lonely old man could join his child bride in her song, the sound of cold water sluicing over jagged rocks in the middle of the onyx lake.

 

        Steve Cartwright is both a professional illustrator and writer and thus suffers as does anyone who serves two such masters. A former newspaper writer, former Atlanta cop, currently involved in dog Rescue, his published books can be viewed, with trepidation, here:   https://www.amazon.com/stores/Steve-Cartwright/author/B011EITC3W?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=6df3b5b3-c7c9-4ce1-a6cb-f4e56b80ccaf