Twining and twisting as if they were alive

Anecdote

Never before this night did he have the sensation. They had taken their one-year-old son to the park after dark—or rather, just before dark, but early autumn’s darkness settled down quickly. Never before had the boy played outside after sundown. He took to it bravely, but strangely. The long straight shadow of a pine tree he took for a path; he walked a…