mushroomwise

Updated: August 17, 2026

In any case it seemed useless to stay longer, and within an hour, on a tug jammed with the last refugees, we were starting down-stream. Behind us, up the river, a vast curtain of lead-colored smoke from the petrol-tanks had climbed up the sky and spread out mushroomwise, as smoke and ashes sometimes spread out from a volcano.

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