7/5/13: Part 4 of "1892," a deleted scene from The Tide King

Part 4 (and final part) of the deleted scene "1894" (from the Tide King) ran yesterday at apt magazine. Thanks again so much to Carissa Halston and Randolph Pfaff for the week-long segment! The Tide King will be available from Amazon at the end of July.

Safine thought the blood meant she was dying. She had not noticed at first because her clothes all were stained red, various shades of it. She thought maybe she had sat in it, for the tomatoes were everywhere, on the tables and on the floors and in the outhouse and one’s nostrils and fingernails. As soon as one scrubbed them out at night, they would just as soon appear the next day, and the day after. But this red was different, fresher and darker, and it was inside her too. She wondered whether she was dying and her insides slowly leaking. She felt a pain between her legs, her back, and was convinced it was so. She watched for Olga to walk down the row, as she often did, and tugged on her skirt.

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This is the fourth installment of a four-part story, a deleted scene from The Tide King. Read the my introduction and part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here.

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