Article: Autumn's golden, poignant days. (Starting Point).(Short Story)

When the wind sweeps through the trees and the autumn leaves drift down, I am often swept into a reverie where I hear my mother's voice calling me as a child, "Come home." It was time for supper and I was off playing somewhere on the farm.

I remember those autumns of my youth, when idyllic summer passed into autumn, bringing a heightened sense of something completed. The trees in the apple orchard drooped like our gray mother cat when pregnant, drooped with the weight of full-term, juicy red apples. The pasture grass lay long and cured to the color of wheat, which in contrast to the brilliant blue sky was breathtaking. The barn, newly painted a rich, blood red ...

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