Fragments from fires

Usage examples of cinders.

Our own yard was just cinders and a few weeds that grew around the steps and the porch.

Outside I heard Poppa coming across the cinders in the front yard, making the heavy crunching sound that he always did, and there was a lighter crunch behind him.

Poppa took these, and the boy went off across the cinders down to town.

The moon was shining so white on the cinders in the yard that they were shining like diamonds.

I thought about how lucky they were to have a nice house in town without cinders in their yard and four feet of clay under that.

But when April came and the clay washed down you knew the cinders were there and you were glad to have them so you could walk without sinking over your shoes.

Right when we got into the yard and could hear the cinders grinding under our feet, Aunt Mae turned around and looked down at the town and held Mother by the arm.

It seemed like we just started, but before I knew it I heard the cinders under my feet, and I realized we were in the front yard.

Then she took me down to the front yard, and we stood on the cinders, and she pointed out over all the hills.

The cinders would be all covered with green things from all over, and the little animals would be acting wild.

The air was thick with dirty black smoke and floating cinders, and so hot it burned their bare hands and faces.

Batwinged shapes floated lazily overhead, dark shadows too high up to be seen clearly, like cinders coughed up from the depths of the Pit.

Vaguely Norman remembered the loosely planked platform, the packed cinders between it and the railway tracks.

Abruptly some sparked to burnt cinders at the very rim of magnetic stresses, killed by some edge defense.

Matt kicked and screamed because when they redrew the line his taxes climbed, but the city wanted Butte Road because they were talking about taking cinders from that little lava cone past his place.