Elaina Epting

“Let us catch those vile fiends, however since we cannot go forward, we will pursue them in reverse.”
― Phillip Urlevich, The Georgia Express: A Tale of the Civil War

“You are right, Laura; human hands didn’t make that place,” Pa said. “But your fairies were big, ugly brutes, with horns on their heads and humps on their backs. That place is an old buffalo wallow. You know buffaloes are wild cattle. They paw up the ground and wallow in the dust, just as cattle do.
“For ages the buffalo herds had these wallowing places. They pawed up the ground and the wind blew the dust away. Then another herd came along and pawed up more dust in the same place. They went always to the same places, and—”
“Why did they, Pa?” Laura asked.
“I don’t know,” Pa said. “Maybe because the ground was mellowed there. Now the buffalo are gone, and grass grows over their wallows. Grass and violets.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, By the Shores of Silver Lake

“Two gasps rang out. The first one came from Clara, the second from Fezzo. One moment they'd been looking at a mound of concrete, and now they were staring at two human feet. They were crossed at the ankle so that tops of the feet faced each other and rested toe to toe.”
― Deborah Leblanc, Toe to Toe

“They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe