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  • ASH AND CHARCOAL III

    ASH AND CHARCOAL III

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    Edu Mungan
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    The Longhouse Trilogy I did not set out to write a story about fire. I set out to write about what remains when the fire has done its work—the ash that clings to the tongue, the charcoal that stays under the nails, the beads that click against a collarbone long after the body that once…

  • ASH AND CHARCOAL II

    ASH AND CHARCOAL II

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    by

    Edu Mungan
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    The Longhouse Trilogy II. THE CHARCOAL LONGHOUSEA Lyric Trilogy for Lutan BOOK ONE: The Hand That Fed the Fire The SparkLutan They named me Lutanbecause my father sold charcoalafter every raid.Black dust under the nails.Smoke in the hair.I never lit the first torch.I only kept the pile burninglong afterthe voices stopped.

  • ASH AND CHARCOAL

    ASH AND CHARCOAL

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    by

    Edu Mungan
    in

    The Longhouse Trilogy I. THE CRIMSON LONGHOUSEA Lyric Trilogy for Anya BOOK ONE: Ash in the Mouth The MarkerThe Night The moon turned the color of a woundthat never quite closed.Smoke climbed in gray columns.Ironwood pillars split and leaned.Sparks rose like restless insects.The longhouse burned.No one asked the night for leave.