The River That Remembered

"...Elijah had come south as a boy with his father, following rumors of steady work and steady water. His father never left the river. A loose log, a sudden current—just one of many men the St. Johns quietly claimed. Elijah stayed anyway. The river fed the city, and the city fed him."

A short historical fiction story set in late-1800s Jacksonville, Florida. Inspired by real places and conditions that shaped the city before the Great Fire of 1901.

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