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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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Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

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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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Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.You forget some things, dont you?Y...more

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Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

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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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Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?