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Find the blog here.Episode 16: Polaris
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | May 3, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light | 0 Comments
I was sitting in the shadows under the street sign when an ancient-looking Honda Civic pulled up next to the curb. Once the car shuddered off, Kason climbed out of the driver’s side and made his way toward me—slowly, cautiously, as if I might spook if he moved too...
Episode 15: Darkness
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | April 26, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light | 0 Comments
So, I went from sleeping in an over-cab bunk to sleeping in a guest room in a Nevada mansion. And let me tell you—I got much better sleep on the narrow strip of crackling cushions, smashed against the windshield in the snout of the RV, than I did on the king-size bed...
Episode 14: Father
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | April 19, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light | 0 Comments
The Uber driver was a stocky, silent guy who obviously preferred classic rock radio over conversation. Which was fine by me. My emotions were shrapnel in my chest, and I didn’t feel like talking. Not when I was an hour away from the moment I’d dreamed about for...
Episode 13: Gospel Truth
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | April 12, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light | 0 Comments
The music and laughter and light of the celebration faded quickly behind me as I ran, the sidewalk slipping away under my feet. It wasn’t until I reached the RV that I remembered: I didn’t have the keys to get in. Who did have them? Blake? Fine, then....
Episode 12: Solstice
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | April 5, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light | 0 Comments
When I woke up in the morning, the rising sun was already kindling the desert flame against the red rocks. The summer solstice. The longest day. Kason’s day. I didn’t want to waste a single drop of the daylight. I slipped down the ladder, scuffed into my...
Episode 11: Mountains
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | March 29, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light | 0 Comments
We were still driving when darkness came. First it was sunset, the light gathering itself into a final hurrah at the western edge of the world. And then it was car headlights flicking over our faces and neon signs buzzing to life at the gas stations and the road...
Episode 10: Perdido
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | March 22, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light | 0 Comments
The next morning, our road turned a northward corner. Making a right angle to the direction we’d followed for so far, we took I-25, heading up New Mexico toward the Colorado border. After we’d driven only ten minutes, Albuquerque—the city of answers—was already...
Episode 9: Constellation
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | March 15, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light | 0 Comments
By the time Kason and I walked back to the RV, the sunlight had already strengthened with a hazy intensity that hinted at a hot day. The world was awake once more—camper doors slamming, people laughing and talking in the tent sites, a truck crunching over the gravel...
Episode 8: Meteor Shower
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | March 8, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light | 0 Comments
We were safely back in the RV on Saturday night when Jaz tried to turn me into a heathen. “We won’t leave till noon tomorrow.” Blake was studying the navigation on his phone. “It’s a shorter drive from here to Albuquerque.” My stomach flopped with that...
Episode 7: Rockhound
by Ashlyn M. Ohm | February 28, 2024 | Along These Lines of Light | 0 Comments
Saturday was the day I discovered three things. First, Jaz is also a nerd. She just hides it better than Kason does. Second, an escarpment is—I’m quoting Jaz here—the sharp slope that separates a plateau from the rest of the land. Kind of like a point of no...