I’m looking for a short story, that I believe was in a magazine, in the 80s. I read it a ton when I was a kid and that would have been the time period. I remember it involves a hurricane or a terrible storm, a weeping willow tree, and I think there may have been a kidnapping or some type of robbery.
Stump the Bookseller
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Are you thinking of The Bridge to Terabithia? It has a big willow tree that 2 kids have a rope swing on it to cross a creek. A big storm causes the creek to swell and the main characters best friend drowns in the creek. No kidnapping or robbery but it was published in 1978. It is a short novel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_to_Terabithia_(novel)
No, I don’t think that was it 🙁