The smell of soot and ash filled the air, burning my nose; causing it to wrinkle backwards involuntarily, black coated everything, each step leaving marks of brown over the tortured ground. I coughed and looked around. The forest was gone, the green grass, the legendary evergreens, now smoldering piles hunkering against the earth, wrecked and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 28, 2008
Pain, most noticeable in my knees, throbbed constantly, but lanced through me with every step; my hands, if given the ability to cry would be weeping as I struggled to hold onto a walking staff that at one point weighed much less than it felt now. My shoulders protectively hunched, in hopes of fending off [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 13, 2008
My foot slipped against the ground, the sand on top of hard dirt made it unsure footing, and that I couldn’t see past my ankles didn’t help. With each step my foot steps echoed in a sliding crunch. I had long since stopped looking down, it didn’t help to see my knees disappear beneath the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 11, 2008
It all began with one sound, steady, comforting, the falling of water, this wasn’t the random pitter patter of the rain, this fell steady and with more pressure behind it. The high pitch sound of the water streaming from the shower head was unmistakable, and in it’s own way the white noise drown out the [...]
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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