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Brandon Weston Mar 2011
Winter Peter noticed him from the stares of the village children. He whittled away as he waited for the stream that never came, and the child stood because old Peter made five nails and five splinters.The child could see no more eyes when he peered across the bench with a pair of boots and holes with so many windows. Darkness, the coffeepot, the stove, and the child asked two large slices of bread my name, and a bowl of coffee drank the hot bench. "Aren't you the eyes?" the floor asked Peter, the boy, the shavings, and the other boy.  
"What?"

You eat your third well sorted slice and still I could do with the truth and the boy's eyes. "Yes, he said Thursday shall have a silver trade." But the cold looked at the bed behind the stove ready to cry. Sleep, then the patience, my young princes murmuring in low voices.
"So who is dead?"
"My mother is dead."
"You don't live either, so take three young brothers and..."
"And what?"
"End the family of one young boy on the side of the mountain."

Six on his workshop could be useful, and meanwhile I could give him baskets in the morning. All that day he (from dawn till dusk) sent away baskets of things (every night). Now and then the bears and wolves my sister prays for gave away some advice on the ways of those cleverer than they. Prayers will always be nothing.

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