The Sound in the Shell, page 3 of 12
He read the reeds like ledgers: the summers, the seventeen small marks, the tides that had all, every one of them, come back.
The numbers said nothing was owed.
He checked them twice.
He read the reeds like ledgers: the summers, the seventeen small marks, the tides that had all, every one of them, come back.
The numbers said nothing was owed.
He checked them twice.