“It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn!”
“There’d been blood in his eyes and Johnny was dying, but it was the most beautiful and frozen dawn Elisha had ever seen. He’d laid on the ground and stared through red stains at a bloody sun and bloody clouds and night’s last death whisper. Even the blind remember a dawn like that.”
“Only at dawn should a man awake from excess - at dawn agleam with red and sorrowful resolve.”
“For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...”
“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”
“The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.”