"THE COAL TIPPLE STOOD like an enormous headstone, paying homage to lives lost and a jobsite long forgotten. A gibbous moon hung in a firmament of planets and stars beyond the stripped hillside. Silhouettes of trees on its summit stretched their crooked fingers to a heaven that wasn’t coming to save them."

-- from, This Bitter Earth 

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