The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read
“‘We’ll shoot the crucifix.’ They froze as stiff as the plaster saints then and the silence was terrible, as they pictured it in their minds.
‘Goddit,’ and he banged his fist hard against the breakwater behind them. But he had scared himself as well, they knew that, with the enormity of the idea and that it had come out of him.
The tide was out and there was the usual mean wind.
They looked at the lime-green seaweed smeared over the rocks and the rusty railing sticking out of its sheared-off con...crete slab, like a broken bone out of an arm, at the dull sky and the dull sea – anywhere but at each other as what Deano had said sank down into the part of them so deep it might never be reached.
They were already old men, it seemed, by the time Mick bent forward to pick up a pebble and chucked it away from him. The sound when it fell was hardly anything and it made them start as if they were already there and had done the thing, heard the crack of the shot, the church door slam, a sudden voice.MoreLess
‘Goddit,’ and he banged his fist hard against the breakwater behind them. But he had scared himself as well, they knew that, with the enormity of the idea and that it had come out of him.
The tide was out and there was the usual mean wind.
They looked at the lime-green seaweed smeared over the rocks and the rusty railing sticking out of its sheared-off con...crete slab, like a broken bone out of an arm, at the dull sky and the dull sea – anywhere but at each other as what Deano had said sank down into the part of them so deep it might never be reached.
They were already old men, it seemed, by the time Mick bent forward to pick up a pebble and chucked it away from him. The sound when it fell was hardly anything and it made them start as if they were already there and had done the thing, heard the crack of the shot, the church door slam, a sudden voice.MoreLess
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