and when he saw the kid standing there looking looking down at him he held out to him his bloodied hands as if in accusation and then clapped them to his ears and cried out what it seemed he himself would not hear, a howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world.

“By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain th…”

“She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she …”

“The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know beca…”

“He’d long forsworn all weighing of consequence and allowing as he did that men’…”