mud-stirring

Updated: June 27, 2025

This hammer-head would not sleep in the shadow, so let it be made aware of the serpent. I took hold of the chain cautiously, the shark watching, and with a quick turn of the wrist the docile serpent lashed offensively. Then did the shark, frightened of a shadow, flee with mud-stirring haste, like the wicked when no man pursueth. The hour of day-dreaming was past.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Tropic Days