PIER 20
Tim
feels the shot ripping through
his body, though he isn't sure if he actually feels it or if his body is
recalling the feeling. The pain dims everything, but the glint from the
gun as the moonlight as it was hit by the moonlight sticks in his vision
even as everything else fades to black.
His body falls backward and hits
the pier with a thud, a noise that sounds somehow off in the distance to
him. The pain from the impact doesn't register. His body suddenly feels
as dim as his vision.
He can hear the men rushing off,
their footsteps pounding across the pier, away from him, and eventually
off to someplace that doesn't exist to him right now. He realizes that
he needs to breathe, but the process is too painful and simply too much
work. He tries to maintain a pattern of quick, light breaths.
He tries to roll over, thinking that
maybe he can crawl someplace where he will be seen, but he knows even as
he attempts this that it is not going to happen. His body sags down to
the pier again.
A river of blood swims out from under
him, creeping towards the edge of the pier and into the bay ...
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