glass-dagger

Updated: June 10, 2025

Here Moussa found him and regretted the loss of his glass-dagger, last seen in the neck of a foreman of coal-coolies toppling into the dark void between a barge and a ship, but remembered a big heavy stone used to facilitate the scaling of the compound wall. To the Magistrate, Moussa Isa offered neither excuse nor prayer. Explanation he vouchsafed in the words:

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life