Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Smith Submitted by: Jane Kivik. Read Online Download. Great book, The Ruins pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Smith by Scott B. Hot Daughters of Darkness by L. Smith by L. He had an image in his mind: a hole four feet deep, just wide enough for someone to squat over it, one foot on either side, its walls dropping into the earth, perfectly perpendicular.
At even a slight depth, the walls of their latrine began to collapse and crumble, so that it widened as quickly as it deepened. For it to be narrow enough to allow someone to squat above it, the hole would have to stop while it was still only two feet deep, which defeated the whole purpose, of course.
Rescued, perhaps. Or dead. Jeff and Mathias were digging now not because it made any sense to be doing so, but because Jeff was floundering about, looking for something solid to cling to, some action to take, anything to keep from simply having to sit, helpless, and wait.
Realizing this, accepting it, Jeff stopped digging, dropped back on his haunches. Mathias did, too. Jeff and Mathias were digging now not because it made any sense to be doing so, but because Jeff was floundering about, looking for something solid to cling to, some action to take, anything to keep from simply having to sit, helpless, and wait.
Realizing this, accepting it, Jeff stopped digging, dropped back on his haunches. Mathias did, too. Jeff tossed his stone into the dirt, wiped his hands on his pants. His palms burned—that green fuzz was growing on his jeans again. The Ruins by Scott Smith.
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