snail-lines

Updated: May 18, 2025

They appeared thin and slow, with only an occasional leaping flame. And some of the black spaces must have been monuments, blotting out the creeping snail-lines of red. Slone watched, strangely fascinated. "What do you think of that?" he said, aloud, and he meant his query for Wildfire. As he watched the lines perceptibly lengthened and brightened and pale shadows of smoke began to appear.

Zane Grey - Wildfire