Where once was forest are now gargantuan blackened stumps pocking the churned-up mud and ash, frozen witnesses to an apocalypse.

Kaa nosed forward, ignoring the growing staleness of his air supply, until he made out a tall biped amid clouds of churned-up mud.

I reached forward to kiss her, but my foot slid on the churned-up mud of the farmyard, and I almost lost my balance.

I followed it, past caring about leaving sign in the churned-up mud.

And a great ball of compacted maggots rolled sluggishly down the middle of the road, sucking up useful leavings from the churned-up mud.

They crossed the street, which was thin, black, churned-up mud from the catawheel trucks which hauled away each day's arrival of freight from Pluto.

A messenger battles midtown traffic like a Phantom of the Street, his face covered with a hockey mask to protect him from churned-up mud and sleet.

The camp covered an area of over ten acres of churned-up mud, still soaked from the recent rains, which was now drying slowly in the sun.

"Pretty good," he said proudly as the tanks vanished with a great slurping of churned-up mud.

She clamped her legs tight around his barrel, as he pivoted and scrambled through the churned-up mud and snow along the palisade.