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It is days after his 23rd birthday when Brian leaves Oklahoma. It has been a frail summer. The rains, which were thunderous, now fall silently, drizzling grey, and deep trenches score the land where the water to fill the rivers had never arrived.
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Brian shudders. He feels sick, feels almost as he did when he heard that buzzing in the shed so many weeks before. He closes his eyes tight shut and holds his breath.
When he releases it and opens them, the swinging shutter is gone. A boy - or a man, he’s too far away to tell - stands leaning on a broom twenty feet in front of him, blocking the shutter. His head is cocked, and his gaze is right on Brian.A Dustbowl AU set in 1930s America