The Old Lady

By Sean Sullivan

Mildred has seen many winters through her high window, watched friends and family come and go with the decades. But through it all the old house never let her down, kept her warm and safe from the world outside. Now Mildred and the house are feeling their age, and the old woman sees the end coming for them both. Her granddaughter has many years and a bright future ahead of her, and Mildred wants more than anything to leave something behind for the girl. On this cold winter night she has a plan, one she hopes will make everything right and mean a new life for them both.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sean Sullivan
• Release date: Apr 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301672196

Sean Sullivan

My writing is so much like the things I craft from reclaimed wood - begun with passion and purpose, sorely short on planning. The three legs of wordcraft being preparation, inspiration and perspiration, I never fail to make do balancing and wobbling on just the latter two. I just can't resist the urge to plunge my hands right into things, start shaping parts of the whole and fitting them together. I grant mine are stories made from old wood - scraps and bits that have seen the world, overused and weathered, salvaged and repurposed. Yet somehow in spite of all that, I find my mode of word and woodcraft work well. For when I’ve hidden all the mistakes I can find, sanded out the rough parts and those apt to leave splinters, I hold something that has character, feels comfortable and fits in. "Is it an antique? Authentic?” some might ask."Or a reproduction perhaps?” A bit of both, I'd have to say. I hope you enjoy reading!

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