Status Updates From Aground

"He surfaced again, and just as he sucked in his breath and went under, something exploded against the water off to his left like the slap of a canoe paddle. He felt a little chill of apprehension. Morrison had located him at last."

"When you’re nineteen, it’s always somebody else that’s going to get it.”

"There might possibly be other things in the world more unpredictable than a woman with too much to drink, but he’d never run into any of them."

"You’re pretty hard-boiled, aren’t you?”
“Not particularly,” he said. “It’s just that I’ve made my quota of bonehead plays for this week."🙂