Yesteryear

Yesteryear

Author: Caro Claire Burke Listening Length: 13h 46m
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A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a tw...

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It’s mid-December, I think. A frigid, cloudy, very bad day. I’m at the chicken coop, adding insulation for the ladies. Then I turn around and forget to breathe.

Old Caleb and Abel are walking up the driveway with two other men.

The two men have thick beards, like Old Caleb, and are dressed similarly to him, but are much younger. There it is: a flicker of recognition, followed by a clicking in my mind, a terrible flooding warmth.

I turn back to the thatched roof, heart pounding. My mind feels like an overheating hard drive. A computer with a broken fan. I stuff more hay into the gaps of the rafters, sneaking glances each time I reach down to grab another fistful from the bale.