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Becoming Avion

He came home to sell the house. The field behind it is a door the town agreed to forget.

Eli Harrow photographs wildlife and has been gone from Serenity, Idaho twenty-two years. His mother is dead, the house is his, and a wellness company has banners downtown promising to restore it. Its site plan shows the cottonwood behind the house as a dotted circle marked REMOVE. Luna Reyes never left. What the two of them remember about that tree is not nostalgia, the people who taught them are not ghosts, and the name the field keeps giving him is not Eli.

1 book · 7h 7m of listening · by June Ashby

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Book 1Becoming Avion

Book 1 · 30 chapters · 7h 7m

Becoming Avion

He shot four frames of a bird over the valley. In two of them, there is a run of white steps behind it.

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Eli Harrow drives into Serenity, Idaho with a legal envelope on the seat and a key in a pouch the attorney labeled house, front door. Twenty-two years gone, his mother three weeks dead, and the offer on the table expires at the end of the month. The arborist report in the packet says hollowing, liability, probable failure about the cottonwood behind the house.

Luna Reyes never left. She is on the other side of that tree when he walks out to it, and cut low in the bark is a mark he drew in his notebooks at nine and told his mother he made up. A circle with a line through it. The first time their hands touch, the field goes out from under him.

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