Floaters
Thinking he’d like nothing better than to stave the dandy fucker’s head in when this was over, he smacked the shillelagh against his leg.
From the tug’s wheelhouse, George Fish watched the city burn. Flames licked from waterfront roofs, spread block to block, warehouse to warehouse, the smoke boiling up to meet the low-hanging clouds. Through the alternating ribbons of darkness and glare, the river cut a serpentine path. The scene was biblical, and with the dead rising from the water and swarming the dry land, apocalyptic.
“Hell of a sight,” tug Captain Ernst Heppel observed.
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