Status Updates From Gently By The Shore

That shrunken husk of what had once been a man. A foreigner, they all said, as though it were something subhuman – a foreigner whom they couldn’t really care about, though he had been tortured, killed in cold blood and thrown into the sea, to be washed up, troublesome and unwanted, on their holiday shore … just a foreigner: one didn’t bother too much about him.