“Let there be more joy than sorrow, if even just a little.”
They were last words it seemed to me.
Good words to end the world on.
They were last words it seemed to me.
Good words to end the world on.
At first Sam and Flora aren't even afraid. They live in a future so deep it may as well be the past. They greet neighbors in the marketplace. And the town enjoys a respite from winter. But the warm spell turns monstrous, swallowing horizons.
So this man and his wife dig a hole and hide at the bottom of the world. They leave behind those threads of life and cut through roots and clay. But the madness comes for them. It peers down from above. And so they go deeper and deeper. Flora guides Sam as they move earth from low to high. She is the architect of their survival. But in the pouring down heat Flora gets weak, wispy like clouds.
Sam finds a puzzle while they work. A message in tiled letters, buried for ages in the earth. What does it mean to say, from so far away? The question of it haunts him. And with the embers of their quiet love dying, Sam and Flora must choose how to embrace their bitter end.
But there are miracles yet to be found, at the bottom, in the dark. Can Sam and Flora survive the end of the world? What waits for them if they do? Because something else is surviving too. A million years above, the threads of life they left behind, begin to writhe and change.
BURNING, HELL is a mysterious adventure. There's a book within a book, a bear on a lonely mountain, and an incredible oasis in the middle of the end. And at the very edge a magic descends. In the calamity, Sam and Flora suffer. They are rent and buried and raised again. But their love is resilient. It nourishes them to the verge of life. And from there it begins to spread.
So this man and his wife dig a hole and hide at the bottom of the world. They leave behind those threads of life and cut through roots and clay. But the madness comes for them. It peers down from above. And so they go deeper and deeper. Flora guides Sam as they move earth from low to high. She is the architect of their survival. But in the pouring down heat Flora gets weak, wispy like clouds.
Sam finds a puzzle while they work. A message in tiled letters, buried for ages in the earth. What does it mean to say, from so far away? The question of it haunts him. And with the embers of their quiet love dying, Sam and Flora must choose how to embrace their bitter end.
But there are miracles yet to be found, at the bottom, in the dark. Can Sam and Flora survive the end of the world? What waits for them if they do? Because something else is surviving too. A million years above, the threads of life they left behind, begin to writhe and change.
BURNING, HELL is a mysterious adventure. There's a book within a book, a bear on a lonely mountain, and an incredible oasis in the middle of the end. And at the very edge a magic descends. In the calamity, Sam and Flora suffer. They are rent and buried and raised again. But their love is resilient. It nourishes them to the verge of life. And from there it begins to spread.
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