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D Mountain By Darrin Freed PUBLISHED BY:Darrin Freed D MountainCopyright © 2016 by Darrin Freed All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, ortransmitted, in any form, or by any means without the prior written permission of both the copyright ownerand the above publisher of this book.This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents areeither the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. The authoracknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various productsreferenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners. intellectual property rights are protected by international Copyright law.You are licensed to use this digital copy strictly for your personal enjoyment only. . It is the mortalswho reach sooner into the abyss. So the turn is with these… Hölderlin. The lights of the clay-tiled board walk flared and sputtered as the sun dropped belowthe horizon, casting brilliant bronze reflections off the shop windows, these myriad formsslowly vanishing into the warm lantern glow from inside the empty Austrian style cafésbefore finally giving way to the evening life of the village. A few young women stood onthe street corner as though waiting for an intimate acquaintance to pick them up and takethem to some restaurant or café. John Anderson watched them for a moment beforeclosing his eyes and pressing his lips together. Something inside him told him it washappening again. He savored the words as though they were part of the opening titles ofsome great film that had just started playing in his head. What was happening again, hewasn’t sure. This phrase had echoed inside him off and on through the course of his life,emerging in his mind like a momentary smile from an unknown woman suddenlyvanishing behind the veil of an indifferent crowd