Frost on the Window: Melting the Silence Inside Me

When winter freezes everything solid, how do you find the warmth to speak up?

Eleven-year-old Maya used to have a voice that hummed with desert heat.

But in a town buried in snow, her words have frozen solid.

To everyone else, she is the "silent girl," trapped behind a window of silver frost.

Everything changes when Maya follows desperate paw prints into the woods.

A lost dog is stranded on the cracking ice, and staying quiet is no longer an option.

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