Roger Zelazny - And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee

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Roger Zelazny. And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee

Preface from Unicorn Variations: Here is another of those

short shorts I dearly enjoy doing when the opportunity and the

idea come together. I tend to see things like this as

single-panel, briefly captioned cartoons--and I work backward a

little from there.

It was with them constantly--the black patch directly

overhead from whence proceeded the lightnings, the

near-blinding downpour, the explosions like artillery fire.

Van Berkum staggered as the ship shifted again, almost

dropping the carton he carried. The winds howled about him,

tearing at his soaked garments; the water splashed and swirled

about his ankles--retreating, returning, retreating. High waves

crashed constantly against the ship. The eerie, green light of

St. Elmo's fire danced along the spars.

Above the wind and over even the thunder, he heard the

sudden shriek of a fellow seaman, random object of attention

from one of their drifting demonic tormentors.

Trapped high in the rigging was a dead man, flensed of all

flesh by the elements, his bony frame infected now by the

moving green glow, right arm flapping as if waving--or

beckoning.

Van Berkum crossed the deck to the new cargo site, began

lashing his carton into place. How many times had they shifted

these cartons, crates and barrels about? He had lost count long

ago. It seemed that every time the job was done a new move was

immediately ordered.

He looked out over the railing. Whenever he was near,

whenever the opportunity presented itself, he scanned the

distant horizon, dim through the curtain of rain. And he hoped.

In this, he was different. Unlike any of the others, he

had a hope--albeit a small one--for he had a plan.

A mighty peal of laughter shook the ship. Van Berkum shuddered.

The captain stayed in his cabin almost constantly now, with a keg

of rum. It was said that he was playing cards with the Devil.

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