A Harvest Moon
By Amicus
()
About this ebook
Harvest moon: a time of rejoicing after the crops have been harvested and the wood stored for the long winter ahead. At a harvest moon dance, a boy watches a spirited girl dancing and his life is forever changed by her grace and form. Afraid to ask her for a dance, he watches glumly as she dances away the night in the arms of others. The next year, he vows, will be different...
EXCERPT:
When I was a boy my father explained that the moon was full and that was how we determined the months of the seasons that came and went from warm to cold and back again.
He told me that the Harvest Moon was a special time. A time when the crops of summer were harvested and stored away for the coming cold and how the people were happy that their work in the fields and the woods would see them through.
Sometimes when it was large and full, the moon took on colors that it seldom did, ranging from a blue tint, to a deep yellow, to gold, to orange and sometimes an angry red with dark lines of clouds across the face. Those were not good harvest moons he said, but I did not understand.
As the days grew shorter and the evenings cooled, there was less work to do; distant families visited, and we went from farm to farm to renew old acquaintances and share the fruit of the harvest. It was a very good time of the season.
It was always planned and adjusted for the time of a full moon, but the harvest season ended with a huge festival that the entire village attended. Everyone brought food and tables abounded with good things to eat; smells of cooking meats and baking things filled the air and music came from all directions; it was the best time of the whole season.
There was the dancing too, at night, on a raised platform with torches lighting the night. I never paid much attention; happy to roam and run and cause mischief with my friends and eat and tease and run some more until I was exhausted and the evening deepened and it was time to leave.
This harvest moon was different.
The friends I ran with all seemed to find girls to wander away with and I found myself alone, watching the dancers on the stage.
And this girl... oh, my, this girl... glided across the dancing area not in any human fashion; but floating, swaying, bending, moving in ways I had never seen before. I could not look away from her.
My eyes were entranced with her long dark hair vibrant in motion, the low cut bodice of her flowing gown, her uplifted arms in movement and rhythm, her delicate fingers and feet seeming fantasy-like in the shifting and glowing lights. My eyes were wide, my mouth open and my heart raced. I had never felt such things before.
Read more from Amicus
Barely Legal Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeauty and the Beast Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Very Hot Day Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTamara Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Big Guy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Girl By the River Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBiker Girl Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to A Harvest Moon
Related ebooks
Pianissimo (Book 2 of "The Silent Note") Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTiffany Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Song Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Song in the Squall Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRiver Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Stone Road Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSunshine & Shadows Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dark River and Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDreamscape - Erin: Erin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGray Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHappily Murdered Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYellow Roses: His Promise Forever Unbroken Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Nothing: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsForever Red Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Book of Shadows Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBreath of Life (Blood Red Bells Saga, #2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dance: Cinderella Connection, #4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsToddler's Tales A Book Of Children's Stories Book 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pillars of Enroden: Everything is About to Change Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeat Wave: Sunapee Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coexistence Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRocky Road to Christmas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSkimming Stones Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cursed Corsets Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Apollo's Sun Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKing of The Reaper: Reaper Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDream Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOnce Upon a Dream Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Cinderella Connection: Cinderella Connection, #5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFeminine Rose. A Collection of Lesbian Love Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
YA Romance For You
Better Than the Movies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Glass Sword Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ignite Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Shatter Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unravel Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We'll Always Have Summer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Restore Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Giver Quartet Omnibus Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Summer I Turned Pretty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Do-Over Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Heir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To All the Boys I've Loved Before Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5They Both Die at the End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Destroy Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Selection Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Woven Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ace of Spades Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daughter of the Pirate King Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Caraval Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Elite Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's Not Summer Without You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daughter of the Siren Queen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Queen Collection: Red Queen, Glass Sword, Queen Song, Steel Scars Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Legendary: A Caraval Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finale: A Caraval Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Legendborn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Out of Darkness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Forbidden Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cinderella Is Dead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Compulsion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Harvest Moon
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Harvest Moon - Amicus
Contents
A Harvest Moon
~~~~~~~~~~
Author’s Note
New YA Adult
Young Adult
Other Novels
by Amicus
When I was a boy my father explained that the moon was full and that was how we determined the months of the seasons that came and went from warm to cold and back again.
He told me that the Harvest Moon was a special time. A time when the crops of summer were harvested and stored away for the coming cold and how the people were happy that their work in the fields and the woods would see them through.
Sometimes when it was large and full, the moon took on colors that it seldom did, ranging from a blue tint, to a deep yellow, to gold, to orange and sometimes an angry red with dark lines of clouds across the face. Those were not good harvest moons he said, but I did not understand.
As the days grew shorter and the evenings cooled, there was less work to do; distant families visited, and we went from farm to farm to renew old acquaintances and share the fruit of the harvest. It was a very good time of the season.
It was always planned and adjusted for the time of a full moon, but the harvest season ended with a huge festival that the entire village attended. Everyone brought food and tables abounded with good things to eat; smells of cooking meats and baking things filled the