
Jeremy Cairns
Joined March 2021
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Writing in the front, ink in the back.
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The Urchin Who Would Not Drown
When cold saltwater enters a wound, it feels like shattering glass on the nerves. His bicep throbbed, the skin rubbed away by friction from the beam he’d clung onto for life. The debris around him bobbed calmly within the submerged hold of the small wooden ship. Amongst the fodder, the grey skin of the other fellows swirled in and out of the strips of bright light that shined through the slats of the deck. The ripples of their spines peaked above the surface of the water, covered in the wet ragged shirts, their funeral shrouds, limbs still chained to their bunks.
By Jeremy Cairns5 years ago in Criminal

