Harmless (2015)
“Death had radically redistributed Derek’s body weight—his limbs were as light as Styrofoam while his torso felt stuffed with ball bearings—but otherwise he could have been any aging party boy sleeping off a wild night, oblivious to the cruel joke his buddies were playing on him.
Joseph and Alex were now walking along a raised bed of packed gravel—all that remained, Alex said, of an old rail line that once connected the national park to the local towns. Its rails and ties were long torn up, the ...sparkling coal pebbles dotting the gravel the only reminder of its former use, but the rail bed elevated them above the marshy ground, making Joseph feel, for a few blurry moments, like he was riding a locomotive, barrelling through a rent in the wilderness to reach town in time for breakfast. The rain had finally tapered off, the mist rising from the ground promising another hot day. Joseph’s knee was stiff and numb, supported by sticks and cloth strips torn from Alex’s jacket, and his ankle was locked into place by the swelling.MoreLess
Joseph and Alex were now walking along a raised bed of packed gravel—all that remained, Alex said, of an old rail line that once connected the national park to the local towns. Its rails and ties were long torn up, the ...sparkling coal pebbles dotting the gravel the only reminder of its former use, but the rail bed elevated them above the marshy ground, making Joseph feel, for a few blurry moments, like he was riding a locomotive, barrelling through a rent in the wilderness to reach town in time for breakfast. The rain had finally tapered off, the mist rising from the ground promising another hot day. Joseph’s knee was stiff and numb, supported by sticks and cloth strips torn from Alex’s jacket, and his ankle was locked into place by the swelling.MoreLess
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