over-cured

Updated: May 21, 2025

There was a storm cloud drifting across Old Ti as the expressman climbed to his wagon seat and drove away from the Inn. It had been a very hot day and was now late afternoon just the hour for a summer tempest. The tiny waves lapped the loose shingle along the lake shore. There was the hot smell of over-cured grass on the uplands.

Helen Beecher Long - How Janice Day Won