“Death is so loud!” The pigeons puff and shuffle; Spiro pulls the stitch through awkwardly, left-handed. “Maybe for other people it’s quiet. You’d want it to be. In bed. When you’re old<\/i>.” He jerks out a smile.<\/p>\n
The patch is almost done. He bites off the thread and blows on it, waiting for the superglue to dry.<\/p>\n
“No,” he says, “for me it’s all roars and bangs and whistles. Bullets and trucks, hot fires and mudslides. Showoff!”<\/p>\n
The pigeons scatter. Spiro laughs and hauls his ragdoll body up, testing his right arm on the wall. It only leaks a little.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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