Winterward

After the sunny week, when Nellie Crane had her custard pies, the weather turned a sharp corner — back winterward.

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You may believe I went into November and looked winterward with a load off my soul, when now the General's health was come back; and with it his temper to wrangle and clash with me.

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Fall is simply a direction, like west; fall is when things move winterward.

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Before they do, though, this time I want one of them to tell me who was in charge of tracking my brother's swift progress sleepward and ever more winterward, footprints suddenly come to an end, like an unfinished sentence in the diary of an elderly teenager working the night shift alone, held up at gunpoint and abruptly deceased, halfway across a black snowfield.

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