Prompt
Sea and sky wen single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so weak at noon that when Pelayo w corning back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was tha1 moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old: very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts,