Sublime

Yet his age, he knew, was not pretense. He saw the sickness of the world and of his own country during the years after the great war; he saw hatred and suspicion become a kind of madness that swept across the land like a swift plague; he saw young men go again to war, marching eagerly to a senseless doom, as if in the echo of a nightmare.

truculent

our fecund little country no longer produced significant amounts of rice, rubber, and tin, cultivating

and Lee K. Abbott’s “Living Alone in Iota” to showcase voice.

By summer we knew that the Penateka, the largest and wealthiest of all the Comanche bands, had been mostly wiped out.

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