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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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This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.

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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 names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward...more

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By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

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It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim drawn up before it had traveled ...more

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Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can read it in his face, in his stance. Yet his...more

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The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.

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I jumped for it and lit in a snowbank and what I'm goin to tell you you'll think peculiar but it's the god's truth. That was in nineteen and thirty on...more

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Used to be a hobo right smart. back in the thirties. They wasnt no work I dont care what you could do. I was ridin through the mountains one night, st...more

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Carry the fire.

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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.