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  • Above it, in a niche carved into the marble wall, was an old half-burnt candle covered in rot.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • The three half-burnt logs and the big upright balk of timber in the hearth made a lot of ash, a few glowing cinders and a flame that crackled quietly and reminded the old woman through her drowsiness of her absent younger daughter Krinio.

    A Different Stripe: 2010

  • Above it, in a niche carved into the marble wall, was an old half-burnt candle covered in rot.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • The Molton wriggled out from a pile of rocks, limping on his iron peg, with an armful of tattered and half-burnt parchments in his stony arms.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • The three half-burnt logs and the big upright balk of timber in the hearth made a lot of ash, a few glowing cinders and a flame that crackled quietly and reminded the old woman through her drowsiness of her absent younger daughter Krinio.

    Commonplace 2010

  • The three half-burnt logs and the big upright balk of timber in the hearth made a lot of ash, a few glowing cinders and a flame that crackled quietly and reminded the old woman through her drowsiness of her absent younger daughter Krinio.

    Excerpts from The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and The Murderess 2010

  • Above it, in a niche carved into the marble wall, was an old half-burnt candle covered in rot.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • The three half-burnt logs and the big upright balk of timber in the hearth made a lot of ash, a few glowing cinders and a flame that crackled quietly and reminded the old woman through her drowsiness of her absent younger daughter Krinio.

    A Different Stripe 2010

  • The Molton wriggled out from a pile of rocks, limping on his iron peg, with an armful of tattered and half-burnt parchments in his stony arms.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • There was a sconce near the door that held a torch, half-burnt from previous use.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

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