The Boy and the Light
THE BOY AND THE LIGHT. A story. Samuel had lived with his father in the old lighthouse his entire fourteen years. His mother died of complications shortly after he was born. His only other relative was his grandma, who lived alone in a nearby town, where Samuel had a few friends. He went into town with his dad a few times a year. The nearby village had all but died over the past decades, only a few left in the region. His friends actually envied his no-school life. The boy's dog was a black, thick-coated mutt-mix, one ear torn from an early fight with a crab. His father just called him dog, as if that were enough. It was. The boy so loved his kind and affectionate dad, who never dreamed he'd be the boy's only parent. Theirs was a bond forged from the fires of loss. Samuel loved the vast wilderness, the sharp Greenland cold that made the air look scraped, then nights of pitch blackness, or sometimes the clearest skies revealing the translucent Milky Way, rad...