Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Standing a tough watch

It was morale-shaking to stand guard in that creeping fog and piercing cold, staring into the drifting opaqueness with red-rimmed eyes, watching and waiting, listening to every sound that might carry about the incessant drumming of the seas on that forgotten coast. Time became a dawdling sluggard.

(from The Cold Seas Beyond, by Gordon Shirreffs)

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