They said in the village they were drying up. The winter rains had not yet fallen and the winds that blew in from the northern mountains had a way of making them restless and sad.

Teresa Kennedy is the author of more than 30 books in a wide range of interests. Ex Voto is part of a collection of stories entitled An Unwilling Grace that is currently under consideration by a number of publishers. Here work has recently appeared online and in print in The Danforth Review, The Red Dirt Review, BorderSenses, The Country and Abroad and elsewhere.