Blackwater Val
Bluedorn scowled, caressing her river-bloated abdomen; Minty with his gashed throat; an unfamiliar woman who sported a red-white-and-blue heart in the middle of her blood-soaked top.
One of the Confederate dead lumbered among them.
They seethed with fathomless turmoil, regurgitated it, their murderous intent apparent. Richard watched the shades loom where they were, none of them attempting to verge the road, their eyes hollow, mouths baying yet no sound issuing forth.
What fresh hell? his writerly mind clucked.
“They can’t cross over,” repeated Katie, “no matter what they do. Can’t cross the gulf.” She spoke low into her father’s ear. “They’re trapped.”
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