The Wishing Pool

Joya reached into her back pocket for the change she had shoved there after she broke a 20, Adam Macdonalds on the road. A shiny penny gleamed in her flashlight beam. She pressed it between her fingertips until a copper was warm. Her heart speeding up. The last time she had stood in this spot, mom had been alive back in the cabin with dad. How could this physical place still exist when the life it was tied to was gone? Please, she said aloud to the night woods, just let my father be healthy and happy.