More from the Carter family
If you’re the grown-up — this part’s for you. If you’re the reader — the story bits are all yours.
Papa builds things for his grandchildren. Here’s a night in the workshop, six hours before one of them found out.
Experiments in Progress
A Carter Family Series story, by B. A. Lumin
Four in the morning, and Papa is already at the bench. The small thing with wings and two points of light isn’t finished so much as done deciding, and in six hours it belongs to his granddaughter. What he doesn’t know yet is what it will turn out to weigh.
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Papa had been awake since four, which was not unusual, except that tonight he had an excuse for it.
The workshop held its nighttime shape around him — tape lines on the floor gone silver under the bench lamp, the smell of solder and cedar shavings, Mimi’s cushion still dented in the shape of where she’d sat an hour ago before giving up and going to bed. She’d left him a plate. He hadn’t touched it. Some nights the pie could wait.
He turned the small shape over in his palm one more time.
There are more Carter books coming, and the creek isn’t finished. When the next one’s ready, this list hears first.