5/19/2023 0 Comments An echo in the bone paperbackThe little boy, red-haired like his mother, had wandered away to listen to the men’s talk, and was now leaning perilously out over the water, clinging to a bollard in an attempt to see the dead pirate. MacKenzie called sharply, and lunged past William in pursuit of his son. The pirate had been staked to drown on the mudflats several days before, the persistence of his decaying corpse an ongoing topic of public conversation. The stake was, though-a stark reminder of the price of crime. She looked pale, he thought, and maneuvered himself slightly so as to block her view of the men and the brown flood of high tide, though since it was high, the corpse tied to its stake was naturally not visible. MacKenzie glance quickly at the harbor, then away. Seen it many a time with deer carcasses.” Them gristly bits what holds the head on, they dry out in the sun. “No, he’s good for another day-two, maybe. “De ally-gator don’ take him, de water will.”Ī backwoodsman shifted his tobacco and spat into the water in disagreement. “Na, him be gone for good,” said a ragged man of mixed blood, shaking his head. William heard the speculations from a group of idlers on the quay nearby, wondering whether it would be seen again.
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