Cheryl Grey Bostrom, Author at Redbud Writers Guild

Literature

Sugar Birds: A Novel

ByCheryl Grey Bostrom July 1, 2021June 28, 2021

Sugar Birds: A Novel is an evocative coming-of-age story about personal wilderness, trust, and the search for forgiveness. In this selection from the book, ten-year-old Aggie—angry with her unpredictable mother—has accidentally lit a tragic fire that drives her into the rugged Pacific Northwest forest, where suffering will compel her to grapple with the character of…

Poetry

Mice

ByCheryl Grey Bostrom April 1, 2021March 23, 2021

At 3:00 am, sleep skitters across the room, a shy mouse, out of reach. I lie in the dark and hear more of them in the walls, the ceiling: old decisions, choices long past, regrets, sorrows, fears, yellow-toothed and dirty, chewing wires. At this rate lights will flicker, come winter. And so I call You,…