You were thrilled to enter the crawl space, but also frightened. There was a chance of snakes.
childhood memories
I could stay home on Sundays when visiting my parents. But I return to the pews of my childhood church because I love the people despite our differences.
All I remember from The Magic Stones is the image of a young man, some stones and blocks, and an experiment revealing the most perfect shape.
God Help the Child, by Toni Morrison
In her 11th novel Toni Morrison returns to the foundation of most of her fiction: childhood and its traumatic effects.
In the fifth row first seat there was a slight boy named Matthew. He could not sit still under any circumstances whatsoever.