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Weekly Contest #232
LIGHT-KEEPER By Rigel Rae My name is Marta. I live in a village very far north. A watchtower stands guard many miles away, at a mountain pass. For three months out of every year, someone in my family stays in that tower, to keep a light at its very top. For those three months, winter is at its most brutal, and there is no sunlight. The tower was built many centuries ago as a way to help traders and travelers over the treacherous mountain pass as they made their way to and from our villa...
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