Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #17 August 2015 | Page 48

“Well as long as you’re not put off by violence?” the man in red said, looking at the Ferryman.
“You can continue. He knows what the world
is like,” the Ferryman said, continue his long slow
strokes pushing them onwards.

death, as I knew them at that time. That came later.”
The Ferryman pauses in his rowing, taking the
silver flask out again, but this time not offering me
any. Although it looks like he finishes off the dregs.
I wonder if he’s as blasé about death as I was before
becoming more intimate with it.

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“He needn’t have been worried. I was a bloodthirsty little devil. I didn’t link his tales with pain and

I closed my eyes. Ready to continue.
To be continued

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