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A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. Cold as ...more

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If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise

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He watched him stoke the flames, God's own firedrake. The sparks rushed upward and died in the starless dark. Not all dying words are true and this bl...more

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The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be ...more

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In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blow...more

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He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reck...more

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Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they'd yet encountered. Cold...more

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He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate...more

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In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles.

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His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.