Leave the Living
“Mick struggled against it, his lungs burning, mouth open as he sucked the freezing air in.The tracks followed alongside his own as if someone had walked next to him, unseen, the entire way. They didn’t deviate where he’d stopped and muddled the snow at the first location of the fish house but instead continued in a straight line to where the hut sat now. He told himself, as he hurried in the direction of the house, that no man could withstand the touch of snow and ice against his bare feet for ...the length that the tracks stretched. He had repeated this fact over and over as he traced their depressions, clearly seeing the individual toe marks in front of the sole. He had even stopped to call out several times into the frigid tempest, his voice lost in the whirling eddies of snow, drowned out by the storm’s overpowering scream. But when the steps became farther and farther apart, much longer than the stride any man could take, he began to run.Mick tried not to look at the prints as he rushed toward the nearing bank, its trees emerging from the curtains of snow, their branches shushing in the wind, almost seeming to tell him to quiet his assumptions, to calm his fear, but it did nothing to slow his pace.MoreLess
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