The Honourable George Easton, Part 2

[This sketch is part of the Three Corners story.]

“Ask him about the house by the river,” Isabel said.

“If it comes up…” Prevarication was, for Isaac, the same as lying, but he was searching for the car keys at the moment, and he didn’t have the mental capacity to also figure out how to answer his wife. Corbyn’s memory of

The Honourable George Easton, Part 1

[This sketch is part of the Three Corners story.]

The Easton Farm was perched on an overlook of the Quoile river, at its most scenic point in the whole upper reaches. It had been constructed from local shale, from the same quarry as the Anglican church kitty-corner to St Marks. Isabel first caught glimpse of it when an old willow along the river bank had been toppled by an August storm and she happened

What Should I Share? Part 3

[This sketch is part of the Three Corners story.]

___ day of ______, 20__:

I’m in trouble now, God! Now we are going to meet on Wednesday nights for Bible Study—tonight!—something Isabel got us to agree to. I said I’d do the tea roster, but Isabel asked me to lead, because, she says, I’m so good at it. Good at it! Oh dear, I don’t