“Keep the fire hot for me,” says Grace before she leaves. “Keep it lit. I’ll be back.”<\/p>\n
There’s enough wood on the pile for five days; Teviot makes it last nine. On the tenth day he burns his chair, then the table. On the fifteenth he burns their only book.<\/p>\n
On the eighteenth he burns his blankets, then his sweater and socks. On the twenty-first he burns hair and fingernail clippings. On the twenty-second he burns the last matches. He burns their dust, and their memory.<\/p>\n
He burns air. He burns hunger.<\/p>\n
On the thirtieth day he burns hope, blue-hot, white-quick.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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