Springtime Youth Novels & Stories

The twenty-seventh spring is distinct from the twenty-sixth in the way that all the springs have been distinct from each other: the jasmine at a slightly different time, the plane trees returning in their own order, the specific quality of the light that is the same every year and is never quite the same. Jordi and Noa are four months old and noticing spring. This is not a metaphor. They are at the age of noticing — the age where the world outside the apartment window has become interesting as a distinct thing, as something that is not the apartment and has its own qualities. Jordi sees the light change and responds to it; his mood shifts with the sky in a way that Valentina finds both famil

Sutburg was filled with flowers in spring, petals flying toward us in the wind, pink, white, and many other colors. Some flowers landed on my shoulder, and I thought to myself that I had made it through winter. And finally, my spring was here.