I Read Stories: Tollbooth Madonna by Kayla Rutledge

Tollbooth Madonna by Kayla Rutledge in Fractured

“In her old age, the Virgin Mary moves to your town in the North Carolina backwoods, buys a fixer-upper and takes walks on the side of the freeway.”

The narrator is the tollbooth operator and so gets to see her as she walks. She just lives there, a minor local celebrity. People gossip about her, worry about a second coming.

There might be one miracle.

Read This: For the numinous meeting the mundane
Don’t Read This: There should be drama and glory when the Madonna returns