Dark and roiling clouds dominated, and the air felt thick with the threat of rain. The downpour would begin within fifteen minutes, Raintree estimated. As a traveling man usually separated from the natural world only by the thin walls of a railroad car, he’d become proficient at reading the weath...
Curtis was fully cognizant that his terror of telephone pole shadows was baseless, yet knowing that did not relieve the fear. Several times he had tried to explain that seeming contradiction to people, but discovered almost no one would really listen to anything he said, much less give it any cre...