They took their time getting up, their muscles stiff and sore. Both had headaches from mild dehydration. After a leisurely breakfast of pancakes, powdered eggs, and instant coffee, Sebastian got dressed and crawled out from the tent and stretched. He stood on the ledge and...
He cawed loudly to the world, then, as mysteriously as he appeared, he vanished into the slice of light which curved like a yolk into a horizon as thin as the edge of a knife. Philip Highmountain walked alone this forest of his youth, the only sound that of soft snow benea...
‘I have not killed your people. I have never killed a person in my life. I do not know what you are saying, old father.’ ‘Look around you,’ said the chief. ‘See how we are alone here now where once these halls were full of my people.’ The young man looked again and replied, ‘But I did not kill an...
For Noah, Simon, and Elijah, three more years came and went before they left for home. For Lucy, four more years passed. Without her friends, the last was the hardest and loneliest. In between, most students graduated and returned to wherever they were from, to where it was they had once called h...
The young man did not go down to stand in the sea or try to lift the great tree as the other men did. Instead, he stayed in the village and helped the elders. He brought them water and cut firewood to keep their fires burning. He slept by the fire and his skin was black from the ash and soot. The...
Some howled from atop their little houses. “Settle down,” she said in a stern voice. “Grandpa will feed you soon.” One by one, the raucous dogs quieted. As she passed other small houses along the way, dogs tied up in front ya...
“You must ambush the enemy on their way to your village,” he said, his black eyes blinking. “You must catch them by surprise.” “Where shall we wait to ambush them?” asked the chief, thankful for Raven’s help. THE GREAT DEATH BEGAN on a cloudless fall day. Geese flying overhead on their long journ...