Lauri Lemke Thompson

Go for a drive or hike before the leaves drop because after they do you will find yourself looking at bare branches for five months.

To climb a mountain and then do all that yelling, she must have been extraordinarily happy with how she was treated, to say nothing of her new glasses.   

So he sets off toward the car in the dark. Her security system records his walk and his little voice: “Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid,” he says out loud with every step.