When the Wind Blows: Uncollected Anthology, #19

By Jamie Ferguson

When Lani was a very little girl, she pretended she could speak to the wind, an understandable pastime for an imaginative child whose father had been carried away by a tornado, never to be seen again.

Many years later, caught in a fierce winter storm in the Colorado wilderness, she asks the wind for help out of desperation.

And the wind answers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jamie Ferguson
• Release date: Jul 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393777397

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When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows

Jamie Ferguson

Blackbird Publishing

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When the Wind Blows

About the Author

The Uncollected Anthology

Uncollected Anthology Member Websites

When the Wind Blows

When I was a very little girl, I used to speak with the wind.

I couldn’t really, of course. Mom and I lived quite a way outside of town, so I spent long hours playing on my own, making up stories and games to entertain myself. It shouldn’t have been a surprise that I came up with this particular notion—before I was even born my father had been swept up by a tornado and carried off, never to be seen again. Unsurprisingly, I developed a fascination with the weather.

I was five when I told my mother I talked with the wind. She yelled at me, her voice as loud and ferocious as a thunderstorm, her face crinkled up and crimson with anger. She said the wind couldn’t talk unless magic was real, there was no such thing as magic, and that I should never, ever lie about made-up things.

I stopped playing my game, and never mentioned it again. On breezy days I’d stay inside, lest I start