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Briery said he didn't know if the BLM would conduct an internal investigation, and he added it was too early to say if the agency would change its permit rules to ensure stricter enforcement of safety requirements.

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In Briery Swamp, West Virginia, Ellen Bird spent another night lying awake with the lights on, lost in grief.

May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

Briery Swamp had always belonged to the woods, anyway.

May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

The most exceptional thing about the town of Hog Wallow, West Virginia—one town over from Briery Swamp—was that nothing exceptional ever happened there at all.

May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

She thought of how, in Briery Swamp, she had wanted so badly for the other kids to really notice her.

May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

The night May Bird came home, the cold, bright stars looked down on Briery Swamp, and Briery Swamp—warm as a fuzzy mitten and full of sultry shadows—looked back.

May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

Would she stay here in Briery Swamp with most of her heart tucked into shadows?

May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

In downtown Briery Swamp, a spider in the rubble of the old post office felt a strange vibration in the atmosphere.

May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

I find it quite amusing that you spent so much of your time in Briery Swamp trying to hide it.

May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

That year, several inhabitants of the Briery Swamp condos went missing.

May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007