We Are All Crew by Bill Landauer

Author:Bill Landauer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2014-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

the flood

The river swells because there’s been a big rainstorm. We cruise past a town where it’s gone up over its banks—you can barely see the roofs of some of the houses, the water has gotten so high. Tires, chunks of wood, boxes, and furniture float in the water. People zip around the streets in little motorboats.

Kang has been hiding the Tamzene as best he can when we travel by day. We try to hug the bank farthest from the town and keep under the trees, but a man in a bass boat spots us and pulls up close.

“Thought you might have been supplies,” he says. Greasy brown hair is smeared all over his scalp, and a three-day beard peppers his cheeks. He looks more annoyed that we aren’t who he’s expecting than he does shocked by the weirdness of our boat. “This is the third storm like this we’ve had in the past six months. Each and every time the government always shows up about two days too late to be of any use. This one’s about it for me and mine—insurance has gone through the roof. Only thing left to do is pick up and head out of here. Hopefully someplace where there ain’t no water. Y’all best get someplace high and dry. They say that storm might turn back around this way.”

We thank him and keep moving downriver. Water stretches all the way out through the woods in some places, reflecting the trees and carrying small sheds and old tires that Kang either changes course to avoid or lets bounce off the hull.

For most of the day the air hangs thicker than the water, bugs swarm us, and the sun burns up at us off the river. Then, late in the day, a gray glacier crawls across the sky, flashing like gunfire.

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