Fiction: As Cold as the Vermont Winter by Mark Tulin

As Cold as the Vermont Winter by Mark Tulin

"Each rap on the door made my heart beat faster. I didn’t bother to look through the peephole. I knew the sound of your knock and imagined you standing in an unbuttoned blue coat, black woolen sweater, and lips pursed, waiting to be kissed. You were the only person I wanted to see on those miserable snowy days when there wasn’t much to make me happy."
--Excerpt from As Cold as the Vermont Winter