Ash Road (2013)
“‘It’s awful-lookin’, isn’t it? T’isn’t like a fire at all.’ Pippa turned a frown on him. ‘If you do see it, you’ll like it even less. Fire that’ll put up smoke like that isn’t the sort you want to see.’ Not that Pippa wanted to see either.
Stevie squinted again into the sky. The smoke cloud was a pale brown overcast with billows of white and curious areas of mahogany and streaks of sulphurous-looking yellow. The sun shone through like a white plate in a bowl full of dye, but the light on the ro...ad was reddish. There was ash on the road, too, unnumbered flakes of it lying in the gravel and in the grass at the edges and caught up like black flowers in twigs and foliage. They turned to powder when Stevie touched them.
‘I say,’ said Wallace, almost unbelievingly, ‘isn’t that the milkman coming back again?’ He wondered how it could be the milkman coming into sight over the same hump in the road over which he had disappeared; but who else could it be?
Pippa yelled for Lorna.MoreLess
Stevie squinted again into the sky. The smoke cloud was a pale brown overcast with billows of white and curious areas of mahogany and streaks of sulphurous-looking yellow. The sun shone through like a white plate in a bowl full of dye, but the light on the ro...ad was reddish. There was ash on the road, too, unnumbered flakes of it lying in the gravel and in the grass at the edges and caught up like black flowers in twigs and foliage. They turned to powder when Stevie touched them.
‘I say,’ said Wallace, almost unbelievingly, ‘isn’t that the milkman coming back again?’ He wondered how it could be the milkman coming into sight over the same hump in the road over which he had disappeared; but who else could it be?
Pippa yelled for Lorna.MoreLess
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