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Raw Dog Screaming Press
Craig Zahler Wraiths of the Broken Land copyright © 2013 by S. Craig Zahler Published by Raw Dog Screaming Press Bowie, MD First Edition Book Design: Jennifer Barnes Printed in the United States of America ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-935738-35-0 / Paperback 978-1-935738-36-7 www.RawDogScreaming.com Wraiths of the Broken Land is dedicated to Pam Christenson & Jody Zahler Summer, 1902 Part IThis Ain’t No Sojourn Chapter IShaking Hands The woman who had forgotten her name shifted upon the damp mattress, and the raw sores across her back, buttocks and arms sang out in a chorus of pain. She turned onto her left side to relieve the wounds. As her legs closed, something hard and unfamiliar press against her vaginal walls, and she said, “Lord...” The woman slid her right hand to her pelvis, poked her fingertips inside, touched a hemispherical lump and withdrew it like a pearl from an oyster. After a moment of lightheadedness, she opened her eyes and looked at the thing pinched in-between her right thumb and index finger and saw that it was a dead baby turtle.
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