title: The Shelter of Darkness
author:  Marguerite Mooers 
description: Before retiring, Marguerite Mooers taught inmates at a medium security prison in upstate New York. She is the author of numerous short stories, award winning poetry and novels. An enthusiastic watercolorist and water color teacher, she divides her time between upstate New York and coastal Texas. The Shelter of Darkness is her second novel.
zlib_text: **The Moomins and the Great Flood**
  
  _In the original Swedish its title is_ The Little Trolls and the Great Flood
  _. It was written by Tove Jansson_ _in 1945._
  
  It must have been late in the afternoon one day at the end of August when
  Moomintroll and his mother arrived at the deepest part of the great forest. It
  was completely quiet, and so dim between the trees that it was as though
  twilight had already fallen. Here and there giant flowers grew, glowing with a
  peculiar light like flickering lamps, and furthest in among the shadows,
  small, cold green points moved.
  
  'Glow-worms,' said Moominmamma, but they had no time to stop and take a closer
  look at them. They were searching for a nice, warm place where they could
  build a house to crawl into when winter came.
  
  Moomins cannot stand the cold at all, so the house would have to be ready by
  October at the latest.
  
  So they walked on, further and further into the silence and the darkness.
  Little by little, Moomintroll began to feel anxious, 