Puzzling Faith
Natural disaster strikes.  Where is the worst place to get stuck?  According to Faith Griffin, it's on a farm in the middle of nowhere.  No modern technology, no track to run on, just field work.  Lots of field work.  Not exactly her dream summer...
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Inspiration

I woke in the middle of the night, shaking and sweating, from a horrible nightmare about the end of the world.  It was so bad that I didn't want to go back to sleep, so I got up to get a drink, and tried to get that dream out of my head.  Except it wouldn't leave.  Those terrible images had been burned into my brain, so I did what I always do when I need to deal with something: I wrote it all down.  When I was done, I felt better.  I was even able to go back to sleep.  In the morning, I expected to crumple up that nightmare and burn it.  Instead, hesitantly, I read what I'd written.  Most wasn't anything that belonged in a book for kids.  Of any age.  But there was this tiny piece, almost microscopic, that caught my eye.  I focused on it, got a new sheet of paper, and began to write.  And Puzzling Faith emerged...

 

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