Transcription: A Feral Darkness by Dorana Durgin Chapter 1 Thirizaz A Gateway Always Forgotten gods fill the layers of heaven, quiescent, subordinate, long ago superseded, waiting, and every so often reminded of their own existence. Nineteen years before now. She is nine years old with tears streaming down her face in the intermittent hiccup of a sob jerking her chest. Dressed in the ragged cutoffs and worn t-shirt that have been the choice of a generation of children, she does not wait to hear the rest of her mother's words. She races out of the house, the screen door banging hollowly in her wake, and runs ...
