Whalefall
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Read between July 14 - July 31, 2024
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He busted free twelve D batteries and, to make up the change, a handful of loose AAs and a single 9-volt. Now his BCD pockets are chipmunk-cheeked. Feels weird. Jay hopes they hold.
miles
This will come back later I’m sure.
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He’s over six feet tall, hands the size of tennis racquets, body etched in nautical tattoos, no fat, though signs of aging have emerged. A curve to the shoulders, slackening chest muscles, fingers kind of shaky.
miles
dilf
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miles
I feel like these don’t need to be chapters. We can just reminisce in the moment
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suicide clip for the place Mitt Gardiner died by suicide.
miles
Then how is it jays fault
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How else is he going to carry his father’s remains?
miles
Oh
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One way or the other, Mitt Gardiner always swallowed him alive.
miles
Evidently won’t be the last thing either
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Jay’s not gay, he thinks, at least not mostly,
miles
bi king
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think how lonely she’ll be in that house without Dad.
miles
They couldn’t return home?
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he springs toward Japan,
miles
What
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“I don’t want to talk to them. I want to go home.”
miles
MOOD JAY
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It’s a human head.
miles
How was he able to find it so fast but coast guard and police couldn’t
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miles
Chop chop whale boy I’m getting sick of this
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miles
AND IM SO SORRY
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Fish wash away with it, and shells, and strands of kelp.
miles
Can he see??
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It’s his father.
miles
Yeah I thought so
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“Told you, fellow. Bad air down there.”
miles
Cool that explained nothing
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“Work till the hour of the pearl! Be stronger! Be bigger! Stop crying! Stop crying! Stop crying!”
miles
You don’t have time for this.
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Always sounded icky to Jay, but Nan was a barracuda. She chomped onto the profession in high school and never let go.
miles
Get to the point jay
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Jay’s back in the stomach’s first chamber,
miles
Oh my fucking god