I Got Trapped in a Burning Forest

Which isn’t a bad metaphor for the state of the world right now.

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Looking down, my stomach lurches. The dried up river bed has turned into a winding flow of flames, the dry vegetation and leaves that accumulated in the dip burning like paper. The worst of the forest fire is over, and yet it still looks like a scene from the apocalypse — the biggest trunks are…