Silent Sanction

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The idyllic night reminded Wade Hanna of long, lazy summer days he spent in the swamp and on the bayous years before. As a child, Wade would bait and retrieve nets of crawfish for the pot of boiling seasoned water and the bright red crustacean feast that followed. His days of fishing and hunting in the swamps gave way to teenage years and life spent mostly in the city.

Early childhood for Wade was not all serene and filled with the natural beauty of his surroundings. He often went to bed stinging with beatings from his alcoholic mother. Wade feared the mystical creatures he was told inhabited the area around his family’s isolated camp in the swamps near New Orleans. He heard tales of Voodoo rituals that cast spells on people’s lives and influenced the future. Wade would often think about these stories when fishing alone in the swamp behind the camp.

For Wade the swamp was an escape from an unhappy home life. He was at peace in the swamp even with all its strange creatures, mystery and danger. When he looked into the eyes of large alligators close to his boat and observed the poisonous cotton-mouth moccasin snakes he understood their world. The swamp was a strange sanctuary filled with unexplained mysteries and humans that practiced old rituals but he had a comfort in those surroundings that he didn’t have anywhere else.

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