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El día de San Ciriaco
8 de agosto 1899
“¡Auxilio!”
“¡Ayúdano’, Señor!”
Help us, Lord! (Senor doesn't mean Lord, the translation is wrong)
“¡SÁLVALO!”
Save it!
She was the reason I’d sailed sixteen hundred miles to get here,
a promise she’d pressed out of me on her deathbed.
Nueva York was a stockpile of the freedom America had pled...
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"the freedom America had pledged to Puerto Rico"
maldito
Damned
Or did the gombeens in Ornamental waste ’emselves
malcriado
flaquito
“One day, you’ll get that smart mouth o’ yours caught in the forge, Mr. Walsh,”
“Aye, if it’s so much fun, I bet Wheezy’ll do it.
Just to be clear, my name’s Benny, not Wheezy—a nickname Farty invented
first being the busted lungs God saw f...
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the second being Farty’s need for a pithy way to...
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"pithy way to remind everyone sure as I was shorter than him, I'd always be lower, too.
No one called Marty Walsh “Farty” but me,
No one else called him Farty
anyone who talked out of his ass as much as he did deserved a name to match.
"as much as he did deserved a name to match."
taking smaller sips of air to ward off the whistle rising in my chest.
If I started coughing, I’d never stop,
cabello
if you had a brain full of noise like mine.
“‘Asset needed before next’—”
“‘Full moon’?”
Sniggers spread around us ...
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"spread around us like a rash" Gross
only nineteen working days to finish this head-smelter unless I ...
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Head-smelter isn't recognized in the Kindle dictionary or on Google
“You know I had my reservations four years ago, hiring a kid who didn’t speak a lick o’ English,”
“But you’ve always had a surprising aptitude for metalwork.
What McCoy called “aptitude” was what got my coworkers resenting me in the first place.
lambón
Farty Walsh was always a bigger hazard when he wasn’t smiling.
the dots of blood that started showing up on my handkerchief when I coughed.
Gowanus Canal looked like spilled wood stain and stank of piss and horseshit.
This threadbare dandy commissioned the tank?
He looked like an avocado stuck in a bird’s nest
rubber boots, matted cuffs, and missing waistcoat buttons comically at odds with ...
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"with his lime green suit"
The tank was headed to a sideshow.
and our eyes blinked wide as a Black man made entirely of muscles swung out onto the gravel with a hefty thud.
“Strongest man in the world, weak against a little chill,” Mr. Morgan muttered
pelirroja
“el pez muere por la boca,”
they probably didn’t want a cur like you slobberin’ all over that pretty little ginger . .
WOW
“Why are you helpin’ me?” I mumbled.
“Welp, you’re a lad in your twenties with no family,”
And like it or not, you’re ou...
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Out of a job???
Paddy McCoy had me beat with his impersonation of a beneficent boss who regretted firing his best smithy.
“It didn’t take a scholar to figure out your foreman wasn’t the craftsman
jitney
sinvergüenza
