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The Cloud of Dust

May 25, 2015 By Linda H. Todd Leave a Comment

Linda Hebert Todd - Westlake, LA, Author
The first thing I did after we moved into the house in the country was climb to the top of the tallest tree in the yard—a pine. As I stood at the bottom looking up, I was certain those silky needles reached right into Heaven. By the time I got to the top I realized it wasn’t quite that high. But it was plenty high.

Looking down, though, I saw the ground was a long way off. But I didn’t care—I was the Queen of the World. I looked out and saw a cloud of dust moving toward me. Westwood Road, back then, was a two lane, dirt country road.

That cloud could only mean one thing—someone was coming. From my perch in the tree I could see a long way off, and that cloud was still pretty far away. Were they coming to see us? There were no houses between us and the cloud.

Finally, a vehicle emerged from the billowing amber dust. A gray car—a Dodge, I learned later—turned in at our driveway. The tires made a thunking noise as it passed over the cattle guard and made its way down the long driveway. It stopped near the back door and three people stepped out. Mama flew off the back stoop to welcome them. My grandparents and great-grandmother had arrived from Houston.

That tree remained my haven, even into my teen years. We could also see the dust cloud from the window of my bedroom upstairs, and as long as Westwood Road remained dirt, we could always tell if someone was coming. Sometimes they stopped at our house.

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Linda Hebert ToddLinda has completed her novel—Wild Justice, a crime story with a revenge theme, and has started another one set in Labrador and Louisiana. She writes all her stories in longhand, bringing to life the beautiful bayous of south Louisiana. Read more...

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Wild Justice

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Keeley Chesson, a crime reporter for a city newspaper, is orphaned at age fourteen, courtesy of a sheriff's deputy who killed her parents and got away with it. Now, fourteen years later, the deaths of her parents still a mystery and the deputy now her town's police chief, tragedy again rocks her…

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The short fiction in this book introduces the reader to an interesting assortment of characters. The lead story—Sidonie and the Loup-Garou—features a high school girl who learns it is a good idea to heed the warnings of her Cajun grandparents. The final tale—The Ghost and Sadie Stackpoole– solves…

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