Mississippi Pearl

In this award winning short story, Kelly Holmsted finds a huge Mississippi pearl while wading in a river. Refusing to sell it, she keeps it with her at all times until she loses it during a traumatic incident that she refuses to talk about.Many years later at a family get together at a cabin next to a frozen lake, she decides to finally reveal the secret behind the loss of her pearl, as well as solve the problem of her abusive husband. But will the cost of her solution be too much for the rest of her family to bear?This short story also appears in the short story collection Bait & Other Stories.