Originally published in Planet Magazine No. 39 (September 2003). The wind howls down the slope of the mountain, gaining in intensity as it cascades over rocks and fissures in its way. Winds that rush like the Dread Horde through skeletal pines and birches, lifting their petrified limbs to the sky in ancient supplication. Begging for … Continue reading One Hundred Twenty Three Degrees, by Jo A. North →