Bessie's Office

Inktober 2016: Day, The Second: Her hair, her skin- they were darker than the night sky. Years later I asked Bessie why she climbed the precarious peak only at night to write in the moonlight and lamp so bright whence she could have simply stayed home and written in the warmth of the sun. She smiled and told me, "Because young man up there-at that time- no one was around to tell me 'No.'