Epilogue
Watching the group and their fondness for one another, I felt light. I knew Willow would heal. It would take time, but she’d go on and realize her dreams. I hadn’t come for her. I knew that, too. I’d come to see myself through the mirror of her life.
My lightness increased, a rolling sort of drifting, lifting up and out of gravity. Without a chance to think how I might say good-bye, I was simply losing my hold, and Farthest House was receding in a wash of warm colors. It wasn’t Thomas I needed to see. In another world Tory waited for me, and there Sabine sang my name.
Author Biography
Margaret Lukas is an instructor in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She received her BFA from UNO’s Writer’s Workshop in 2004. In 2007, Margaret received her MFA from Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma, Washington. She is a contributor to NEBRASKAland magazine and an editor for the quarterly literary journal, Fine Lines. Her writing also appears online and in the 2012 anthology, On Becoming, published by the University of Nebraska Press. Her award-winning short story, “The Yellow Bird,” was made into a short film and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. She is a recipient of a 2009 Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist fellowship. Farthest House is her first novel.
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FARTHEST HOUSE
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Epilogue
Author Biography
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