

The Echo Once upon a time there was a girl. She lived in a cottage at the edge of a forest, and every day she worked in the garden to help her mother. She mowed the grass, watered the window-boxes and the hanging baskets, picked the ripe vegetables, trimmed the hedges, straightened the gravel on the paths, polished the benches, fed the birds, dead-headed the pansies, cleaned the shed, re-potted the seedlings and trained the clematis to climb the trellis. She never left the garden. She never wanted to.The Echo by ~morgantown
One day, a boy came to the gate just as she was oiling the hinges.
Hello, he said.
The girl had never spoken to a boy b