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the dilapidated barn.
    She spread out the trays and filled them with potting soil she’d prepared previously. With the trays full and even, she began planting the seeds. Tomatoes, squash, celery, eggplant, pumpkins, peppers. She labeled each tray as she worked then sprayed them with a gentle stream from a watering can.
    Over the next two weeks, Avery watched her little sprouts emerge from the dark soil. The little water leaves opened up to the air, catching the morning dew each day. With each new emerging seed, Avery felt a greater sense of awakening possibility. It was more proof that her farm was coming together and would really make it in the end.
    The clover had begun to sprout in the fields as well, and the seed she’d sewn directly into the raised rows had also sprouted. She was so excited about the success of her planting that she almost didn’t realize that she was already several days late for her cycle.
    When she checked her planning book and noticed that her monthly visitor had not yet arrived, she set her pen down on the flowery page and tapped her fingers to her lip.
    Just over two weeks ago had been the full moon. That had been the night of the strange dream of the strange man who had emerged from the body of a wolf. She had rationalized the experience as a dream, a hallucination, a moment of falling into her subconscious. There’s no way that could have been real. But she was never late for her period.
    Was there some possibility that she hadn’t dreamed it? Was it possible that part of it was real? Maybe one of those mushrooms she put in her soup hadn’t been what she thought it was.
    Had someone come onto her property and made love to her? How could that happen? Everything about that experience felt as if it were the most perfect moment of her life. She felt more connected to the dream man than she ever felt for any boyfriend she’d ever had. She remembered the feelings of connection between them when they were together. That couldn’t possibly happen with a stranger who just wandered onto her land and raped her.
    Still, Avery wasn’t the kind of girl who could just let this kind of thing go. Even if she wasn’t ready to define exactly what happened the night of the full moon, she wanted to know the truth. She wrapped a sweater around her shoulders and walked out the front door to her truck.
    She drove into town like she did every week for her regular grocery shopping trip. She took her canvas bags into the store and walked up and down the aisles with her cart, placing her weekly supply of groceries in the basket. When she came to the pharmacy aisle, she picked up the box and hid it under a bag of spaghetti noodles.
    When she got to the checkout, she hid the box under a box of cereal. When the check out lady picked up the pregnancy test, she gave Avery a strange look and glanced down at Avery’s hand. Avery jerked her hands behind her back. She wasn’t going to let this woman see that she wasn’t wearing a ring. Judgment from some local woman was the last thing Avery needed today.
    She paid for her groceries and took them out to the truck, where she put them in the passenger side of the cab. At home, she carried her bags into the house and slowly put everything away. When there was nothing left to unpack, except the pregnancy test, she lifted the box to her face and read the directions. She’d never had to take one of these things before, but she had known some other girls who had. Apparently it was the easiest thing in the world. After reading the instructions, it seemed to be the case, so she took the package into the bathroom and followed the directions.
    As she paced around in front of the mirror, she thought to herself how ridiculous this all would seem from the outside. If she told her mom or dad or brother about this, they would think she was a complete flake. She couldn’t tell anybody, that was for sure. The people in this town and the people in her family had already proved themselves