Everything seems to erupt at once. The earth explodes into showers of dirt and plant matter. Trees burst into flames. ex·plo·sion   /ikˈsplōZHən/ Noun 1.       A violent and destructive shattering or blowing apart of something, as is caused by a bomb. 2.       A violent expansion in which energy is transmitted outward as a shock wave. Do…

Our full stomachs make us more uncomfortable and breathless than we were on the morning’s climb. I begin to regret those last dozen oysters. Hiking while well-fed and rested makes you uncomfortable, but hiking while starving and running on fumes didn’t? Yeah, sure, that makes total sense and isn’t in any way a gross misrepresentation…

Wait, there’s no ifs about that. I don’t understand what’s going on. And if I don’t, it’s time for Peeta and me to clear out of here. And this is why consistently lying to everyone about everything is a bad idea.  You’d think someone would have realized this after the disaster that was the “keep…

Prim makes a sound — such a lost, irretrievable sound — that I can’t even imagine what they have done to evoke it. So far, Katniss has heard nothing except screaming and whatever this unidentified noise here is.  Point is, there doesn’t seem to be much actual voice involved.  I don’t understand how Katniss can…

A clock. I can almost see the hands ticking around the twelve-sectioned face of the arena. Each hour begins a new horror, a new Gamemaker weapon, and ends the previous. […] “So we have to move somewhere safe now.” Eh.  It’s a neat concept, but it’s pretty easy to figure out.  It probably passed by…