Title: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Jewel Song
Word Count: 100
Notes: Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper burns. Written for the LJ theavatar100 community, challenge #88 -Titles of famous literature


The fire comes streaming toward her and her grandmother, and with a scream, she is thrown back to an ash filled sky, and the stench of burning flesh.

Her mother, lying face down in the snow, the normally soft, dark skin blackened beyond comprehension.

She can feel the heat on her face, the flames as hot as the campfire that warms her at night, yet completely different at the same time.

Not for the first time (and definitely not for the last), she wonders if her skin will fold, blacken and burn as easily as an unwanted piece of paper.


: Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. - Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Death" :