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i'll fly away (o, glory!) by paulmescalien
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
23 Dec 2025
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Summary
It rains in King’s Ditch the day Barbara Jean Barkovitch dies.
The rain does not come gently. Storm clouds bloom like thick smoke from the east before rushing forward and swallowing the sky over the town whole just to crack it back open in a thunderous storm—a downpour of biblical proportion, Baker might say. Gary doesn’t know what that means. He don’t go to church no more—ain’t gone in a long time, really, not since he was a boy. And even when he did go, Gary never sat and listened to the sermons. He never read the bible or learned the hymns. He was always restless in the pews, itching for the second he’d be able to burst through the churchhouse doors and be set free again. Gary doesn’t know heads or tails of no biblical shit, no, but he knows a real bad storm when he sees one. He’d have to be fucking blind not to. Water cascades down from awnings and rooftops to flood the streets and gutters, running off the road and soaking soil thawed from the spring. A deluge runs down from the mountain to the valley like a cleansing river, washing clean the streets of King’s Ditch.
Gary Barkovitch wishes it would cleanse him, too.
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or, the one where Gary loses his meemaw and the boys come together for him
Series
- Part 2 of country roads, take me home