Scarlet Oak
Scarlet Oak A creative coming-of-age story about a disabled tree sprite's journey away from her forest home to save a boy's broken spirit. Wingless since early youth, she imagines deeper things,…
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Scarlet Oak
A creative coming-of-age story about a disabled tree sprite's journey away from her forest home to save a boy's broken spirit. Wingless since early youth, she imagines deeper things, longing to know more than a warm bond with her birth oak. Tree sprite Scarlet Oak exists as an outlier in her forested society.
Heartbroken, Scarlet bargains with Smis, Southern Maryland's Grim Reaper, for one cycle of seasons to find proof that the boy's spirit belongs to the Light, not the Dark. Then, one autumn night in 1977, an autistic boy wanders into her realm and hangs himself from her tree. Morphing into human form, she finds the boy's distraught father a few steps from her woods and extends a crimson leaf to him.
Soothed for a moment, he brings her to his wife on their isolated farm. Scarlet eases into the couple's abode, the bluebell house, which, like the boy's parents, is beautifully