The Death of Mountains

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet leaving us with scarred lands stories like </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Death of Mountains</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> are more meaningful than ever. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When the Death of Mountains came for us we had been aching for a long time. There is so much loss in being a mountain; it is a terribly long time to live. Yet something awoke within us when they arrived their face a stone skull their hands' obsidian bones that cracked and crackled like fracking. It made us hurt to hear their earthquake step across the ground as they arrived. Their breath was like coal dust the stuff their cloak was made from. They left a trail of oil behind them as they walked. When they spoke their breath was hot volcanic; it made us wither at first. We however are a middling hill of the Appalachians. And we have seen much worse.Far worse than death.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Death of Mountains says Plundered Mountain it's time to go.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And we say We are not ready Death. We have too much yet to see.</span></p><p></p><p></p>