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The exhibits are positively useless in the offseason,” he said dryly.
He calls them “the exhibits”
A splash like a cannonball blasting into a lake sent spray flying up
something hard struck my ankle and I buckled, falling cheek-first onto metal.
A sea-stained h...
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caught my wrist through ...
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another closed around my neck and yanked me down, banging my ...
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“Have you no voice to scream, fiendish parasite?”
“I will tear out your throat,” he continued in a quiet voice as deep and fearsome as distant thunder.
“I will dine on your flesh, you flea-bitten sack of terrene entrails.”
“You will release me from this cage or, so help me Neptune, I will gouge out your eyes with my fingernails.
take you apart with my teeth and season the water with your blood until my fins are stained red.”
“Can’t . . . breathe . . .” “Die, then!
“Air’s a little . . . thin . . . over the tank,” I croaked.
Why didn’t he tell him what happened?
I didn’t tell anyone about my confrontation with el tritón.
“Didn’t you see how he flinched just now?
He’s a flincher, and flinchers always got something on their conscience!
had the human in my grip.
Had he not struck my hand, he would have been slain by it.
Is this what captivity has wrought...
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Never have I so misplaced myself to violence that I had loosed my voice to the air,
Just then, I saw it: He rolled his eyes!
“Miércoles.”
That means Wednesday
Hermoso.
la tisis
¿Quién sabe?
My whole life, no one had ever looked at me this way.
Like they could see past the layers of shirt and skin and rib cage and find the X that marked the spot where I’d buried myself.
“I’m Benny, by the way. That’s short for Benigno.”
“Your name means ‘kind.’”
“We shall see.” “What’s yours then?”
“Humans cannot say it.”
My name is my own. You may not have it.”
“How ’bout ‘Río’?”
“Why that name?”
A river can be both devastating and beautiful.
Río, on the other hand.
One look at him and you had to wonder if the Bible had been selling God short this whole time.
he and Sonia been spending the offseason cutting deals with folks too shady to show their faces
Anyone tell you what got him so bent on hunting mermaids in the first place?”
Sam Dixon was just a kid when his rich pop took him out on the ocean
storm sweeps in and, BAP”—Matthias clapped his hands—“he gets knocked overboard.
he notices he ain’t the only thing in the water trying not to...
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There and gone in the flip of a fin is a rea...
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“He lost his goldang mind,
Gabbin’ to anybody with ears about fish ladies out to kill us or, at the very least, watch us drown.
Sam’s tongue was nice and polished from sucking on that silver spoon so long.”
Just keep your eyeballs open and stay out of Sam’s business, same as I do,
“How’d he know that mermaid was gonna drown him?”
You ever heard of a person who can see underwater?”
“Uh . . . no?”
