Abradant
The shark’s skin was smooth from gill to tail. When he dragged his palm towards the massive head, the dermal denticles, minute teeth that formed the aft edges of the […]
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Aboutship
Near the northern tip of Catalina Island we faced a sudden gust of unseasonable wind. It came on heavily for so early in spring, so we tacked within sight of […]
Abeam
The captain called Rudy to the stern and asked him to peer through the spyglass. He took the telescope in hand and, reverently, put it to his face. There, far […]
Abaft
Many years ago, on an old trawler out from Nantucket, I crewed with a man very on in years and yet whose hands and forearms resembled those of a shaved […]
Pierce Nahigyan 