Off the Ice
Anneyuri on iceholiday hockey tale: the icebreaker's impassebreaking the ice between us
He looked up, and for the first time, he saw the cabin.
It was a sprawling, single-story structure built of massive, hand-hewn cedar logs, tucked deep against the granite face of the mountain as if it were trying to hide from the elements. A thin, steady curl of gray smoke rose from a massive stone chimney, cutting a straight, fragile line against the darkening violet of the evening sky. There were no electric lights glowing from the windows—only the warm, amber flicker of candlelight and the orange glow of a fire catching within the hearth.