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Beached Whale

By alan_benefit on Sat, 12 Aug 2006

"Sixty-six feet from snout to flukes, the coastguard said. As if that was all it was - something reducible to human proportion. A scale more possible to comprehend: the length of eleven men laid end to end. Dead.
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