Elias Voss, 62, retired federal wildland fire investigator, had spent the last eight years perfecting the art of being left alone. Since his wife passed from ovarian cancer in 2015, he’d turned down every invitation to the downtown taproom’s weekly beer garden, called every neighbor who dropped off a casserole overly nosy, and mocked the TikTok teens who’d flocked to the edges of the recent 120-acre wildfire outside town to film “fire porn” for clout. His only consistent companion was a three-legged hound named Smokey, and he liked it that way. The only reason he was even at the beer garden that crisp October evening was his 22-year-old niece had threatened to cancel his satellite internet if he didn’t “get out and talk to a human who doesn’t drool on your work boots.”
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