Heather Thomas
speaker
1,616 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Heather Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
The moon's distant light cannot reach into the shadow beyond the first trees, and my eyes cannot pierce the gloom.
I brace a hand against the frozen trunk closest to me, and rest my head against it.
I can still turn away, keep ignoring my child, go back.
Back to the empty house, an empty bed, and empty crib.
His cries quiet and stop.
I don't feel relief.
I know he will cry again before I am ready to hear him.
I've ignored him this long, for longer than he's been crying in the woods.
I know better than to heed the voices calling in the woods.
I don't have the strength or a reason anymore.
Not to walk back across the field.
Not to face his father.
Not to ignore his cries.
Better to face what haunts the woods, to die alone and cold following his cries, than live alone and cold in the house.
I push off the tree and stumble through the woods.
The snow is thinner on the ground under the trees, but the air is no less frigid.
I think my blood is frozen.
Otherwise I'd be dripping blood from the scrapes and cuts I've collected from the trees that jump in front of me and the roots that trip me.
I walk, stumble, for an hour, maybe a night, before a rock catches my bare toes and throws me into the clearing.
The bare branches of the tall straight trees bordering the clearing scrape at the night sky.
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