Part 1 here. “Of course, another dead end!” Natalia shouted. He stomped on a fallen branch. He took the tree he had grabbed and in his rage he tried to knock it over. Failing to do that just made him angrier, and he gripped it with both hands, eyes wild. Natalia screamed into the sky as he pulled […]

Natalia walked down the highway between towns, his stepping rhythmic, droning almost. He wasn’t paying attention to his surroundings, occasionally stepping onto the shoulder or pacing into the lane absently. His mind was in the past, all he could see was the places he had left behind. None of them had what he was searching […]