I wanted to share a couple in-progress illustrations we have for a story coming out later next month. 

The story is called “Messy Blessings,” and it’s about all the things that normally go unblessed, like traffic and trash and cactuses and mischief.
 

    

The artist is the wonderful Madeline Barber. 

Also, if you missed any of our previous stories (they’re free), here are the links:

• “Scar and the Wolf” part 1 and part 2 (part 3 is out today!)
• “Goodnight Tomb”
• “How Foxes Got Their Meander”
• “The Island of Slippery Souls”)
• “The Man Who Walked in Salt”

This week in “Scar and the Wolf,” our zombie hero Scarlet enters the forest on her way to Grandma’s. …  

Happy reading!

Jeff, Bob, and Zoe

Current reads:  “Because of Winn-Dixie” and “West with the Night” (Jeff); “Who Not How” and Shelly Palmer’s blog (Bob); “Clean: The New Science of Skin” (Zoe).

“Scar and the Wolf”: Part 3

Illustration by Jordan Kump.

Time to Do the Right Thing

The haggis line was just a few zombies long. Scarlet found herself almost disappointed — she’d hoped Jeminy and the other Threadheads might wander by and ask about her new boa, thick with raven and cardinal feathers. 

Chunk Grissom Sr. was still singing, only more softly now that the market day was winding down.

“I’ve got guts and I’ve got stuff.
Stop your shopping, I’m enough.
Always tender never tough
Get yourself up off your duff
I won’t give you any guff.
You’ll like my guts and love my stuff.”

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