azel's

Updated: May 31, 2025

Hazel was a flower in a gale when she danced, a slim poplar tremulous and swaying in the dawn, a young beech assenting to the wind's will. Abel watched her with pride. She was turning out a credit to him, after all. It was astonishing. 'It's worth playing for our 'Azel's feet. The others just stomps, he thought. 'Who's the fellow she's along with? I'd best keep an eye. A bargain's a bargain.

Mary Gladys Meredith Webb - Gone to Earth