This is a story I wrote about the aftermath of the Australian bushfires. In January 2020 my property was right in the middle of five massive fires, which are mostly out now - I kept having to evacuate, and then I didn't know if I'd have a home to come back to. Like everyone who lives out here in the bush, I've been thinking, this is how it's going to be from now on. Next summer, and the summer after that, and the summer after that. This is our new reality. Anyway, this story is set in the future, and it's kind of optimistic. In a way.... It's also published in an anthology, Stories of Hope, which is here www.books2read.com/storiesofhope