The heat in the delta was a living thing. It pressed against your skin like a wet cloth, smelled of rotting cypress and something older—something that had been rotting since before the war, since before memory.
I came to the delta with one good leg, one good lung, and a head full of things I could not unsee. The war had taken my arm and my innocence in the same afternoon, somewhere near the Mississippi, where the water ran red and the alligators ate everything that floated. The iron bird had been a gift from a friend in Washington—a decommissioned reconnaissance aircraft, painted drab green and...
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