Reality Attacks
or
the little fish
Reprinted without permission from the Power of the Sword 1986
By Wilbur Smith
....fallen into the net. The fish had immediately pushed against him in unison, driving him below the surface, fighting against the resistance of his body in their efforts to escape.
When, hours later, they had at last recovered the corpse from the bottom of the net, they had found that the fish had been forced by their own efforts and the enormous pressures in the depths of the trapped shoal into all the man's body openings. They had thrust down his open mouth into his belly; they had been driven like silver daggers into his eye sockets, displacing the eye balls and entering the brain. They had even burst through the threadbare stuff of his breeches and penetrated his anus so that his belly and bowels were stuffed with dead fish and he was bloated like a grotesque balloon. It was a sight none of them would ever forget.
I think Barb et al have done a wonderful job of painting a picture of an undisturbed man.
Just you wait, If you cross this imaginary line, we will get you, you don't even think about crossing this line, we will, we will, we will get you, everybody listen, we will get you if you cross this imaginary line. |
