He put his hand in the fire for me. He was in the parlor with my father, his uncle.

“Let me see her for as long as my hand is in the flame!” he declared, making quite an impression. I heard him across the house.

But father sent him away.

Ciera Horton is a 20 year old writer and world traveler, a lover of old books and swing dancing, and a student at Wheaton College in Chicago. She shares her culturally-engaging outlook on literature and social hot topics on her blog, cierahorton.blogspot.com.