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Death Appears from the Ashes
Wherever the Devil Flicks his Cigarette
To Be Continued….from The Devil With His Gun
It originally was the house that his grandfather built for his new bride. His grandfather, Peter, made the field house when he was engaged to Athena's grandmother. Kosta's daughter was named after her. His great-grandfather gave the rough and rocky field to Peter. The land showed great potential. The area needed clearing. His grandfather spent a month gathering all the large stones to make the ground arable. He set the rocks in a pile that towered three times his height. His grandfather was very tall, almost two meters in height and his nickname in the village was the 'giant.' Costa's grandfather was teased by his father-in-law, "are you trying to build a pyramid like the ones in Egypt." Once he gathered all the stones, he planted his groves of olive saplings, row by row. After he planted his olive trees, he would spend the entire day arranging the rocks into a large rectangle, layering the mortar in between, and stacking them up to build his four walls. His grandfather worked like a maniac in the heat of the summer sun. He would never rest. Before dusk, he would walk back and forth from the creek to each sapling with an old aluminum bucket filled with water. He…
