The Adventurer
Penny Nolte
While my coffee is reheating on the campfire, a kayaker drifts by. With his pack tied aft, a camera mounted to the fore, and a parka rolled against an improvised backrest holding him upright just well enough.
The crisp air lifts steam from my cup and curls it toward him on a light breeze. “Smells good,” he calls to shore, too far away for any response to reach him. That’s the way sound travels on the water around here, where fourth of July fireworks sound like musket shots and cicadas sing like eighteenth-century sawmills.
Penny Nolte
Penny Nolte creates gentle narratives of family and place. After a decades-long break from storytelling, her work is beginning to appear in literary magazines including The Avalon Literary Review, and Dorothy Parker's Ashes. Penny grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario and now makes her home in Vermont.