Hellfire
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“No! No more!” Nathan roared. He stamped on the little splotches of flames that ate at the woven rug bearing interlocking geometric patterns. He brought down the iron poker on outlying embers and then followed up with his boots.
The fire shrieked up at him until he crushed the final glimmer.
He turned, panting for air in the sulfurous room. Ozzie watched him, her hands clasped tightly around her father, who was beginning to weep.
In the distance, church bells rang. They hadn’t rung since city laws banned them, citing it was a distraction from the official civil time. Now their song echoed off the levee and the streets and the river.
ABOUT JEFF PROVINE
Jeff Provine is a curriculum developer and college Composition prof from Oklahoma. He teaches courses, such as the History of Comic Books and the Life and Films of Charles Chaplin. Following a ten-year run of his webcomic, The Academy, Provine is especially active in the local comics community, running the Making of Heroes comic workshop for the Pioneer Library System in 2015. He blogs regularly in Alternate History, and his other books include Celestial Voyages and Dawn on the Infinity.
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