Cress Delahanty, by Jessamyn West, chapters 10 and 11

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. In the first chapter today, Cress is filled with teenage emotion and melancholy. Flowers bloom so fleetingly, the raindrops on the lawn evaporate and disappear, and everything in life seems destined to degrade and disintegrate. Maybe Cress’s emotions come because the young man she loves doesn’t know she exists. Or maybe it is just the blight man was born for. It is Crescent that she mourns for. ...