Sand And Fire (9780698137844) (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
One of those came during seventh grade when a flu bug put him down for two weeks. During that illness, strange and vivid dreams haunted his sleep. Lost in deep woods that formed a maze. Charged by a bull with steel horns. Attacked by a buzzard that wouldn’t let him alone until he picked up a dead tree limb and knocked the bird out of the air. Such vivid dreams came to him now, with all the stark colors of the flu dreams. But the new dreams did not take him into fights with monsters. Instead they took him into his past. He found himself standing on yellow footprints painted on pavement—his first day of boot camp at Parris Island. Not far from his home, but an entirely different world. His grandfather had tried to prepare him for the rigors of basic training. Physically, he was ready. The running, the obstacle course, the heat all challenged him, but he met each challenge. The difficulty came with the mental stress: the yelling, the impossible-to-please drill instructors, the stuff he had to memorize.
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