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A Bit of Rough by Lucy Felthouse5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She took deep breaths, forcing herself to relax. Could this man have fallen overboard from one of the ships catching the last high tide? With his damp hair and wet clothes, if he hadn’t fallen off a ship, he’d at least been out here since last night’s rain. ![]() It seemed to her untrained eye that he could have worked on a ship. The man had shaggy, dark hair and wore a black-wool coat, well-worn, blue denims, and black boots. The wolfhound strained at the lead, trying to get a sniff between yelps and whines. Taking a deep breath, she pulled Bracken to her side and inched closer to the body. Was he alive? The large man lay on his side with his back to her, so she couldn’t tell. The river had been an active shipping lane since medieval times for the port town of Drogheda just four miles upriver. To be fair, the body wasn’t actually on the beach, but on the stony bank along the River Boyne near where it opened into the Irish Sea at Mornington Beach. Her breath caught and her stomach tightened. The last thing she expected to find while jogging with her dog on Mornington Beach was a body.īut there it was. City Nights/Knights Submission Guidelines. ![]()
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