Tides of Grace
my mother used to keep this,"
he added, watching her expression closely.
Marrine took the book from him with careful fingers.
It was heavy, its pages yellowed with age, the spine cracked.
She opened it to the first page and found scrawled notes, old drawings, and calculations.
It was a journal.
"My mother kept this?"
"Yeah,"
Zeke replied, "she was fascinated by ghost stories.
She always told me that the most interesting were the ones that held some truth.
Marrine turned the page, her eyes skimming the hurried script.