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ashen.
Sabaa Tahir • A Torch Against the Night
ashen-faced,
Paul Murray • The Bee Sting: A Novel
They looked up at the hillside. It was a face with a smashed mouth, with stumps of teeth. There were no shadows and no shifting lights. It was just what it was, and no more: a devastation.
‘So you still haven’t found your friend?’ The question is blurted out without any preamble, and you need a moment before shaking your head in reply. ‘Well,’ Seon-ju continues briskly, ‘seeing as you’ve not had any luck so far, the soldiers have probably buried him somewhere.’ You rub your chest; the dry chunk of seaweed-wrapped rice seems suddenly
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Sepulchral.
James S. A. Corey • Caliban's War (The Expanse Book 2)
living in the ashes. Among the ancient Scandinavian
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
devoid
Sabaa Tahir • A Torch Against the Night
blanched.
Sabaa Tahir • A Torch Against the Night
Malta is a sigh, and I am a limestone soldier, wondering how the sea can forget her children.