No one sang up there. No one ever laughed too loud. Even the gods were silent.

“She stood on the end of the dock, pale and goosefleshed and shivering in the fo…”

“It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.”

“El miedo hiere más que las espadas.”

“I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage, though, a…”