Is June Spring Or Summer ((exclusive)) May 2026

Eloise and Margaret both turned. That was the kind of thing you said when you were an English professor.

The next morning—June twenty-first, the solstice—Eloise woke to find a glass of lemonade on her nightstand. Beside it, a sticky note in her grandmother’s neat hand: is june spring or summer

Eloise Fowler, age nine and fiercely logical, stood with one hand on the sliding glass door. Outside, the hydrangeas were fat and blue, the air so thick with humidity it seemed to breathe on its own. Inside, her grandmother, Margaret, was knitting a sweater the color of lemons. Eloise and Margaret both turned

“June,” he said, “is the liar of the year.” Beside it, a sticky note in her grandmother’s

“It’s the only honest one,” he replied. “June is a border town. It belongs to both countries.”

“Yes,” Tom said.