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“I mean I don’t answer to that name anymore.” He was familiar, but I couldn’t place him. Someone from back in New Braunfels, to be sure. Maybe someone from Ellard’s church or a worker in his mill. Not someone old enough to have ridden with Ellard back in his Indian-killing days, which was the type of person I would have expected. This was just a boy, hungry or desperate enough to follow a supposedly dangerous witch into the wilderness. He wore a long coat against the cool evening, and...

Size / Zoom The ritual had become intolerable: the priests droning outside the solar chapel, the sweltering braziers piled with flame, the incense coating the inside of her mouth as she gasped through the sacred movements—again, again—her limbs heavy, mind thick with exhaustion, thick with the sound of the ritual chants, thick with so much consecrated wine ceremonially swallowed. Again, again. At the end of each repetition she was empty, hollowed out by the long night, the endless choreogra...

Size / Zoom The sun fell in love. My maman always told it that way. The sun fell in love with the goddess of the mountain and he wanted her. In the end he ate her right up. Snap snap snap. I’d always wondered what that felt like. To be eaten. To know that you are being devoured. That’s the problem with wondering, maman told me when I was little. You put small thoughts out into the world, and they are sure to come back and bite you. Now, it’s not the dog’s fault she ate me. Not really. ...

Border wall with mexico. chief white house correspondent john roberts with the latest. we are hoping for some -- for a break. for some daylight. every looking at it? >> we dont know at this moment. white house officials like talk to in the last 2 minutes tell me that the situation is very fluid here at the white house. we do know they are setting up the rose garden with the big teleprompter for the president in the event that something breaks loose and the president comes out to the rose garden ...