The Fog Page #6

All of us.

1340.

KAB.

44.

The smooth sound.

Fabulous 1340.

KAB.

45.

From the top of the world,

fabulous 1340.

KAB.

Antonio Bay, California.

46.

Something that one lives with

like an albatross round the neck.

No, more like a millstone.

A plumbing stone, by God. Damn them all.

Every hour, on the hour,

KAB news and weather.

10.

Every hour, on the hour,

KAB news and weather.

End side two, KAB promos.

How can a man drown

and not touch the water?

He had water in his lungs,

saltwater round his mouth,

seaweed in his clothes.

Unless...

You OK?

Did you see his eyes?

Yeah, I saw his eyes.

Andy, the telephone.

I got it, Mrs Kobritz.

- Hello.

- Where did you get that driftwood?

I told you, it was on the beach.

- Where?

- By the rocks.

What was it doing?

First it was a gold coin,

then it turned into the wood.

I want you to stay away from the rocks.

Don't pick up anything else off the beach.

- It didn't belong to anybody.

- I know, it's all right.

Just don't pick up anything

unless you get me first, OK?

OK.

- Is Mrs Kobritz there?

- She just came in.

OK.

I have to start the broadcast.

Don't leave the house tonight.

- Mom.

- Promise me.

OK.

- I love you, Andy.

- Me too, Mom. Bye.

Ahoy, mateys.

This is Stevie Wayne, your night-light.

And KAB, Antonio Bay, California,

is on the air.

I've lined up some tunes to help you

celebrate the 100th birthday of Antonio Bay.

So let's get down to business.

- What did your mother want?

- Nothing.

It must have been something.

Nothing.

Mrs Kobritz,

what are those clouds out there?

Evidence of deep, penetrating wounds

in each ocular orbit,

entering into the cranial cavity.

Also, jagged lacerations of the face...

- You wanna wait out front?

- I'd rather wait here with you.

Thorax has been crushed

and the lungs are filled with fluid.

Talk to you a minute?

She gonna be all right?

Did you talk to Simms?

By radio. He's coming back

from Bodega Bay.

- What happened out there?

- There was rust everywhere.

Like it had been there a long time,

taking on water.

He was down below.

His wounds are covered with algae,

his lungs are full

and there's silt under his finger nails.

I saw Dick Baxter

three days ago in Salinas.

Now he's in there, looking like

he's been underwater for a month.

- Do you feel that?

- I'll tell you what happens.

- It just got cold in here.

- The water acts like ice.

A body would take a year to decompose.

Longer, if it was deep and cold enough.

But he was on the boat.

He was below decks.

No, Dick Baxter died in the ocean.

Remember those kids that went diving

for that old boat off the point?

We got to 'em, they'd been down

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