Elsa walked along the beach of black gritty sand, the glass knife in her webbed fingers gleamed with wetness she had killed the shark, it was on the beach where none would touch it regardless of the amount of meat it held. Not once she told the elders about the attack anyway. Out of the […]
The grit stuck to her eyes, made them itch and burn, the humid heat pushed down crushing her lungs from the inside. Another brick was added to the load, her knees wobbled painfully. The smell of the flickering flame in the lamp, acrid and throat burning but it would not go out if it got […]
Metcalf stood back from the oily smoke. If he thought about the smell and what it was, he gagged; but he was the senior investigator in this mess and had to be made of sterner stuff. The plumes were from the incinerator designed to deal with foot and mouth outbreaks in farm animals, but the […]