Bed of Nails (39 page)
That night, after drinking too much “bush beer” at a
tumunu
, I tossed and turned in the grip of a nightmare that saw my injured arm shrivel to a black stick.
Come the first light of dawn, I sat outside on the patio, listening to the South Pacific waves while I constructed the plot of this novel.
Slade
Vancouver, B.C.
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