Winter has come to our farm.

It’s a season of waiting.

 

We spread wood chips, dead leaves, and hay mulch over the places that will become next year’s gardens.

The sun goes down before our work is done, and darkness creeps into the places where daylight lived before, but we’re always working toward the promise of good things to come.

We build for what isn’t here yet; winter is the season of anticipation.

 

Bio:

Bokerah Brumley is a speculative fiction writer making stuff up on a trampoline in West Texas. When she’s not playing with the quirky characters in her head, she’s addicted to Twitter pitch events, writing contests, and social media in general. She lives on ten permaculture acres with five home-educated children and one husband. In her imaginary spare time, she also serves as the blue-haired President of the Cisco Writers Club. In 2016, she was awarded first place in the FenCon Short Story Contest, third place in the Southern Writers Magazine Short Story Contest, fifth place in the Children’s/Young Adult category for the 85th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, and selected as a 2016 Pitch Slam! finalist. More recently, she accepted novel contracts with Clean Reads Press and Liberty Island Media. She also moonlights as an acquisitions editor for The Crossover Alliance.