Slimey

It is a swamp of willows, cottonwoods, and vines; a malarial and pestilential waste where bars of white sand and pools of slimey water glisten through the saplings.

Climbed through the blown-out window and sloshed through the slimey water.

It once had been the warehouse and dock of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; now it was a ruin, its four shambling stories sagging into the slimey water.

I won’t let those thieving, murdering leeches who call themselves our kin get their slimey hands on you.

Because our sows have failed to produce enough piglets, Fanny suggests that we not feed the brood sow so well, and that we give her “more slimey food, not too rich” so that she will produce more piglets.