Literature
Where there is Sea...
“Where there is sea…”
I
MERCHANT VESSEL SAN MIGUEL,
ONE HUNDRED MILES OFF THE COAST OF EAST AFRICA…
The ship lay still in the middle of the night-time ocean. On deck, a door burst open. Two men armed with AK-47s dragged out a lifeless body. They hauled him across the floor, and pushed him through an opening in the guard rail.
They stood donned with makeshift items. The smallest of the pair, in a black bulletproof vest and bandana, gagged. <You shouldn’t have done that!> he spoke in his mother tongue.
His partner, in a blood-stained plain vest, just stood calm. <Why’s that?> he