There was no sunlight that day, and flowers with banners naming the giver had no aroma. The Godfather theme music played in Maria's head while a cast of characters, like sepia photos in her mother's ... [+]
Rumor has it the lake is a graveyard, she says.There are bones down there, tumbled smooth and collecting algaealongside sunken pennies, lost spoons, decaying bandages,secrets chewed like gum and spit off the dock at night.Bet you can't touch the bottom, she laughs.Her dare sounds like my favorite song played on a violinso I pike dive off the kayak and flutter my feet,heart, eyelids, fingertips, reaching for mud at the bottom,or the molten center of Earth, or the meterstick of breathbetween us when we sleep. Whichever comes first.Rumor has it two girls lived alone in those woods,at the end of t