The First Fire
Craig Morgan Teicher
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The very first fire burned for an hour. It seemed to set itself ablaze and then it ran its course. The second fire burned for a day, the third for a year, and so on, until the fire burned longer than any man could measure.
Men threw their food into the fire, and still the fire burned. They threw their cattle into the fire, and still the fire burned. They threw even their daughters and their sons into the fire, but still the fire burned.
