Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic wo

Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of industry, somewhere beneath her. Another kind of machine.
----Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters: Stories