Abandoned Landscapes, Round Two, Chapter Two

(Above is my picture of a few of many many dead trees (remember the 1988 fire?) in Yellowstone)
Hi.  I am the second leg in the blog-fiction-ongoing-online-game of Consequences. See below for the complete rules and participating writers, recruited by, as Sam J. Miller said before me, “the steady curatorial hand of Wah-Ming Chang.”
Basically, one [...]