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Swabber-cook Sam sails on Captain Enrico Fisher’s pirate ship Leviathan’s Tooth when they steal the blinking, blood-hungry “Maka O Ke Kai” pineapple from the Sandwich Islands — a cursed fruit that, prophecy says, will make its bearer “King of the World” if carried halfway across the globe by sea. Obsessed, sleepless Enrico drags his dwindling crew through kraken attacks, mermaid ambushes, and Leviathan’s milk to reach landlocked Bechuanaland in the Kalahari, believing it has a bay. They arrive during the 1890s rinderpest drought to find only carcasses and bones; with nothing left but weevil flour, rotten tomatoes, spoiled milk curd, and the cursed pineapple, Sam cooks a final “pizza on top pineapple” that kills the last men, leaves Enrico dying with “Re del mondo” on his lips, and ends with Sam alone as the fruit sprouts one watchful eye in the sand — the rain never comes.
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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Read Del Mondo. Ten chapters of salt, madness, and curses. Content, gore, cannibalism, body horror. Pirates were not nice.
00:43Chapter One. The swabber who talked to doe. The leviathan's tooth smelled like hell's own armpit. Fish, blood, tar, and
00:57the sweet rot of men who hadn't bathed since Lisbon.
01:01Sam mopped it. He was seventeen, skinny as a marlin spike, missing two fingers on his left hand from when
01:12a hatch slammed shut in a storm.
01:15He talked to the deck while he worked. Sorry, he'd mutter to the planks. Didn't mean to spill the captain's
01:25coffee. Didn't mean to live. His other job was galley assistant.
01:31Cookie was a one-eyed Maltese who'd lost his tongue to syphilis and communicated in grunts and kicks. They fed
01:43the crew three things. Fish, jerky, and the fresh vegetables we'd looted from the sandwich islands.
01:53Flower now gray with weevils. Tomatoes blackening at the seams. The fruit was in a cage on the quarterdeck. A
02:05pineapple. Except pineapples. Don't blink. Enrico's backstory. Piece One.
02:13Enrico Fisher was born in Genoa. 1825. To a count who drowned debtors for fun. At eight, Enrico watched his
02:26mother walk into the Ligurian Sea in her nightgown.
02:30She didn't come up. His father said,
02:34The sea takes what it's owed. Enrico decided to become the sea's debt collector.
02:41Sam's backstory. Piece One.
02:46Sam Kalou was born on the Zambezi.
02:49Lousy tribe.
02:51His real name was Kalulu.
02:54Hare.
02:55At eleven, Kalolo slavers took him.
02:59His mother died on the march.
03:02He was sold into Lagoa Bay.
03:05Shipped on the Esperanza.
03:08He survived.
03:09Because he volunteered to peel rotten yams in the galley.
03:15The cook told him,
03:16Food remembers.
03:18The tooth raided the Esperanza.
03:21Off Madagascar.
03:24Enrico killed the slavers.
03:26Freed the cargo.
03:28Most drowned.
03:30Sam swam.
03:32Climbed the hull.
03:34With a yam in his teeth.
03:36Enrico handed him a mop.
03:39You live if you work.
03:41Now Sam mopped blood.
03:44And watched the fruit.
03:46Its eyes followed him.
03:48Only him.
03:50Enrico hadn't slept.
03:52Since the Sandwich Islands.
03:55He sat by the cage.
03:57Gold teeth gleaming.
03:58Whispering.
04:00Read El Mondo.
04:02Read El Mondo.
04:04King of the world.
04:06The kahuna had screamed it too.
04:09Before Enrico cut his throat.
04:12Half the world by sea.
04:15At bay you rule.
04:17Or the sea eats you.
04:19First night after the raid.
04:22Sent.
04:23Elmo's fire.
04:24Danced on our mast.
04:26But it was red.
04:28The color of opened meat.
04:30It hissed Samuel.
04:34Recipe.
04:35Hardtack and jerky bilge soup.
04:38One pound hardtack.
04:40Beat with a belaying pin.
04:43Until dust.
04:44One strip jerky.
04:47Chew first to soften.
04:49Spit back in.
04:51Boil in seawater three hours.
04:54Add weevils when they float up.
04:57That's flavor.
04:59Sam's note.
05:01Tastes like my mother's funeral.
05:04Chapter two.
05:05The fruit wants blood.
05:08Day seven.
05:09Sharks.
05:10Not hunting.
05:13Circling.
05:14Hundreds.
05:15They rammed the hull in a rhythm.
05:18Like a drum.
05:20Thud.
05:21Thud.
05:23Thud.
05:24The fruit's eyes rolled.
05:27Enrico went below.
05:29Came back with his Bible.
05:32Slit his palm.
05:33With a gilded clasp.
05:36Let blood drip through the cage.
05:39The fruit drank.
05:41Eyes dilated.
05:43Sharks left.
05:45New rule.
05:46Sundown.
05:47Every man gives three drops.
05:50Refuse.
05:51Your keel hauled.
05:53Sam's turn came.
05:55He pricked his finger.
05:57Blood hit the pineapple.
05:59The fruit shuddered.
06:02One eye swiveled.
06:04Locked on him.
06:05It whispered his name.
06:08Not Sam.
06:09Samuel.
06:10Enrico's backstory.
06:13Enrico's backstory.
06:13Piece two.
06:14Age 19.
06:16Privateer for Genoa.
06:18His ship was boarded by Barbary Corsair's.
06:22He hid in a wine barrel.
06:26Watched them slit.
06:27His captain's throat.
06:29And drink from the wound.
06:31And when they passed out.
06:34When they passed out.
06:34Enrico crawled out with a marlin spike.
06:37And brained them all.
06:39Took their ship.
06:41Told the port.
06:42He negotiated their surrender.
06:44He'd been negotiating with devils.
06:48Ever since.
06:50Sam started dreaming.
06:52The fruit was in his dreams.
06:54It was in a bakery.
06:57Covered in flour.
06:59It was his mother.
07:01It was drowning.
07:03Recipe.
07:04Shark liver oil and rum grog.
07:07One juvenile hammerhead.
07:10Caught when it beached itself praying.
07:13Cut liver.
07:15Render over fire.
07:17Oil is blue-black.
07:20Mix one-to-one ratio with rum.
07:23Drink.
07:24Side effect.
07:26You see underwater.
07:28You wish you didn't.
07:31Sam's note.
07:32I saw Cookie down there.
07:35He had no tongue.
07:36But he was singing.
07:38Chapter 3.
07:40Kraken Calamary and the Blind God.
07:43We crossed the equator.
07:46Enrico skipped the ceremony.
07:49Said Neptune's a dead king.
07:51I served the new one.
07:53The Kraken came at midnight.
07:56Not a squid.
07:58A god.
08:00Tentacles thick as church pillars.
08:03Suckers ringed with teeth.
08:06It didn't want the ship.
08:08It wanted the fruit.
08:10It reached for the cage.
08:13Enrico stood on the bowsprit.
08:15Arms wide.
08:17Read Del Mondo.
08:19He screamed in Latin.
08:22The fruit screamed back.
08:24Not sound.
08:26Light.
08:27A pulse from its eyes.
08:30The Kraken recoiled.
08:33Milky fluid ran from its eyes.
08:36Blind.
08:37It thrashed.
08:39Took down the mainmast.
08:41Then sank.
08:41We harpooned it as it died.
08:45Took six hours.
08:47It wept when we cut it.
08:50Sounded like cookie trying to pray.
08:53Sam's backstory.
08:55Peace 2.
08:56The Esperanza hold.
08:58200 people.
09:01Dysentery.
09:02Sam's job.
09:04Carry out the dead.
09:05One was a woman who looked like his mother.
09:09He kept her water gourd.
09:12Still had it.
09:13Drank from it when the nightmares got bad.
09:17He cooked the Kraken.
09:19Monster recipe.
09:21Kraken ink.
09:23Risotto alla pescaterie.
09:25One Kraken tentacle.
09:2840 pounds.
09:30Boil six hours.
09:32With cannonballs for tenderizing.
09:35Ink sack.
09:37Pierce carefully.
09:39It's hot.
09:41Tastes like drowning.
09:43Last cup of rice.
09:45Stolen from a Portuguese nun.
09:48Stir with a severed oar.
09:50Add seawater.
09:52No salt needed.
09:54It's wept enough.
09:56Sam's note.
09:58The ink turned our teeth black.
10:01For three days.
10:02We smiled like corpses.
10:05Enrico called me chef.
10:08Promoted me from Doboy.
10:10I didn't want it.
10:12That night.
10:14No one dreamed.
10:15The fruit slept too.
10:18Chapter 4.
10:19Tomatoes against sirens.
10:22Sargasso sea.
10:24No wind for 18 days.
10:27Seaweed thick.
10:29As a grave blanket.
10:31They came at dusk.
10:33Mermaids.
10:35But not the paintings.
10:37Their skin was gray.
10:39Hair like kelp.
10:41Teeth needle sharks.
10:42They sang in Portuguese.
10:46They sang in Portuguese.
10:47Sam's childhood tongue.
10:49Kalulu little hair.
10:50Come home.
10:52Three men jumped.
10:54The mermaids didn't drown them.
10:57They unfolded them.
10:59Peeling men like fruit.
11:02They wanted the cage.
11:03Sam remembered Cookie's journal.
11:07He grabbed the last tomatoes.
11:10Overripe black juice.
11:12And threw.
11:14The mermaids shrieked.
11:16Where tomato hit.
11:18Their skin blistered.
11:20Smoked.
11:22Nightshade.
11:23Someone screamed.
11:24They hate nightshade.
11:27They fled.
11:29Enrico looked at Sam with new eyes.
11:33You listen, he said.
11:35Like me.
11:37That night, Sam couldn't sleep.
11:40The fruit whispered.
11:42Samuel, you're almost home.
11:45Recipe.
11:46Siren scarred tomatoes.
11:49Six tomatoes.
11:50So rotten they're alcoholic.
11:53Crush by hand.
11:55Do not cook.
11:57Heat wakes them up.
12:00Smear unhull as ward.
12:03Sam's note.
12:04Tomatoes kept whispering mother all night.
12:08Or that was me.
12:10Enrico's backstory.
12:12Peace 3.
12:131855.
12:15Escorting a noble family to Cyprus.
12:19Storm.
12:21Red St. Elmo's fire.
12:24Enrico locked them in the hold.
12:27For their safety.
12:28Storm passed.
12:30He opened the hold.
12:32Empty.
12:34Only water.
12:36And claw marks on the ceiling.
12:39Genoa stripped his title.
12:41He's been chasing that storm ever since.
12:45Chapter 5.
12:47The milk and blood of Leviathan.
12:50It didn't rise.
12:52The ocean unmade itself.
12:55A trench opened off the port bow.
12:59From it came a head.
13:01Not fish.
13:02Not snake.
13:04A mountain with eyes.
13:06Like molten gold.
13:08Each scale was a shield.
13:11When it breathed.
13:12The air went hot and sweet.
13:15Leviathan.
13:17It looked at Enrico.
13:18Enrico.
13:19Enrico looked back.
13:21No one moved.
13:23Then Enrico whispered.
13:26Harpoons.
13:27Sam said no.
13:29Enrico shot him in the foot.
13:32Cook or join cookie.
13:34It took two days to kill.
13:38Leviathan didn't fight.
13:40It led us.
13:41Like it was bored.
13:44Its blood boiled in the air.
13:47Its milk ran from gills.
13:50Thick, white.
13:51Smelling like vanilla and copper.
13:54The crew drank.
13:56Saw God.
13:58Saw their deaths.
14:00Saw their mothers.
14:02Enrico bathed in the blood.
14:05His skin steamed.
14:07The fruit grew roots.
14:10One pierced his chest.
14:12He laughed.
14:14Monster recipe.
14:16Leviathan heart stew.
14:18One Leviathan heart.
14:20Two hundred pounds.
14:22Still beating.
14:24Cube it with axes.
14:27Ten gallons blood for broth.
14:30It never cools.
14:32Two gallons milk for cream.
14:35It sings when poured.
14:38Last onions.
14:39Last garlic.
14:41Last sanity.
14:42Boil until the heart stops.
14:45It takes a day.
14:47Sam's note.
14:48We ate God.
14:50Tasted like forgiveness.
14:52And diesel.
14:54Now we all hear the fruit.
14:57After that, the sea was empty.
14:59No fish.
15:01No fish.
15:03No birds.
15:03Just us.
15:07Long pork and weevil communion.
15:38Flower weevil dust.
15:39He killed Boatswain with his Bible chain.
15:45Tore his throat out with his teeth.
15:47Ate his heart.
15:49Ate his heart.
15:50While it was still twitching.
15:52Any other kings?
15:54Enrico asked.
15:56No one answered.
15:58Sam's foot was black.
16:00He took a knife.
16:02A bottle of rum.
16:03And cut off his two smallest toes.
16:07Fried them in shark oil.
16:10Long pork.
16:12He told the crew.
16:13They ate.
16:15They didn't ask.
16:17Recipe.
16:19Weevil bread and apostle toes.
16:21Two cups weevil flour.
16:24Sift out legs.
16:26Keep bodies.
16:28Protein.
16:29Seawater.
16:31Sam's blood for salt.
16:33Bake on a cannon.
16:35Till it's a brick.
16:36Sam's toes.
16:38Salt fry serve.
16:40Sam's note.
16:42I am feeding myself to them.
16:44This is communion.
16:47This is the last meal before hell.
16:50Sam's backstory.
16:52Piece 3.
16:53Age 13.
16:55Esperanza.
16:57The woman who looked like his mother died.
17:00He stole her water gourd.
17:03Kept it.
17:04It's in his sack now.
17:06Still has Sam Bessie river mud.
17:09In the seam.
17:11He's been carrying his mother for four years.
17:15Chapter 7.
17:16There is no bay in Betuanaland.
17:19We hit land.
17:21Africa.
17:23But Enrico had a map.
17:26Betuanaland, he said.
17:28Half the world by sea.
17:31We're at bay.
17:33There was no bay.
17:35Just sand.
17:36We dragged the longboat.
17:39Forty men started.
17:41Kalahari took them.
17:44Day 3.
17:45No water.
17:46Sam found it Sam-a-melon.
17:49Cut it open.
17:51It bled.
17:52Day 6.
17:54We drank Leviathan curd.
17:56It was alive.
17:59Moved in the skins.
18:01Day 9.
18:02Four men left.
18:04Enrico, Sam, Graves, and the fruit.
18:08Enrico's body was a garden.
18:11Pineapple eyes blinked from his collarbone.
18:14His thigh.
18:16His cheek.
18:17We crested a dune.
18:20Betuanaland.
18:22The drought of 1896.
18:26Rheinderpist.
18:26The ground was a carpet of cattle.
18:31Ribs like boat frames.
18:33Skulls like bowls.
18:35Vultures sat on them.
18:37Too starved to fly.
18:40No people.
18:42No water.
18:43No God.
18:45Enrico fell to his knees.
18:48Spread his arms.
18:51Read Del Mondo.
18:52I rule.
18:54He ruled bones.
18:56Enrico's backstory.
18:58Final piece.
19:00His mother didn't drown.
19:02She walked into the sea because Enrico, age 8, told her he hated her.
19:09She'd slapped him for stealing.
19:12He said, I wish you were dead.
19:15She went to the water that night.
19:18He's been trying to buy her back from the sea ever since.
19:22The fruit promised he could.
19:26Chapter 8.
19:27The Last Galley on Earth.
19:30Inventory.
19:32Weevil flower.
19:33Two cups.
19:35Tomatoes.
19:35Three.
19:36Black as bruises.
19:38Jerky.
19:39One strip.
19:40Moving.
19:41Curd.
19:42One skin.
19:43Green.
19:44Maka okikai.
19:46One.
19:47Fourteen eyes.
19:48All looking at Sam.
19:50Sam built a fire from the boat.
19:54The wood was wet with blood and milk.
19:57It burned blue.
20:00Enrico wasn't Enrico anymore.
20:03He was a trellis.
20:05The fruit's roots had replaced his veins.
20:09He drooled sap.
20:12Cook, the fruit said, using Enrico's mouth.
20:16Sam did.
20:18Not for prophecy.
20:20For mercy.
20:22For his mother.
20:23For the woman on the Esperanza.
20:26For the dough that never rose in Lisbon.
20:30Chapter 9.
20:32A pizza on top pineapple.
20:35Sam talked while he cooked.
20:37Like he was back in the bakery.
20:40Flour, he told the dust.
20:43You were wheat once.
20:45I'm sorry.
20:47He mixed it with seawater.
20:49And a little blood from his palm.
20:52Needed it on Graves' chest.
20:55Graves didn't mind.
20:58He was dead.
20:59He flattened it on a shield.
21:02The Kalahari sun baked it from below.
21:07Tomato, he told the black fruit.
21:10You fought sirens for us.
21:14He crushed them.
21:16Juice ran over his fingers.
21:19Like ink.
21:20Curd, he told the Leviathan's milk.
21:23You were a god once.
21:26Now you're cheese.
21:28It hissed when it hit the dough.
21:31Jerky, he told the last strip.
21:34You were a cow.
21:35You were a man.
21:37You were me.
21:39He shredded it into twelve pieces.
21:43Apostles.
21:44Then the fruit.
21:46He lifted it.
21:47The eyes were calm.
21:50They knew.
21:52Sam sliced.
21:54Sap ran clear.
21:56The eyes blinked slow.
21:58Then slower.
21:59He laid the rings on top.
22:02Like crowns.
22:04The pizza baked in ten minutes.
22:07Dough didn't rise.
22:09It blackened.
22:11Cheese bubbled green.
22:13Pineapple eyes cooked milky white.
22:16Then burst like blisters.
22:19It smelled like ship.
22:22Like storm.
22:24Like bakery fire.
22:26Sam cut it.
22:27With a shard of crock and beak.
22:30Served it on the shield.
22:32Enrico crawled.
22:35He was mostly fruit now.
22:37He took a bite.
22:39For one second.
22:40His eyes were human.
22:43He tasted Genoa.
22:44He tasted his mother's bread.
22:47Before she walked into the sea.
22:51Samuel.
22:51He said clear.
22:53It's good.
22:54He died.
22:56Graves ate.
22:58Died.
23:00Sam ate.
23:01It tasted like every meal.
23:04He'd ever made.
23:06Like hunger ending.
23:07The rain never came.
23:11The rain never came.
23:11Chapter 10.
23:12The eye in the sand.
23:14Sam sat.
23:15The fruit was gone.
23:18The cage was empty.
23:21The core was in his hand.
23:22He dug a hole with his fingers.
23:26Planted it.
23:28He sat by air.
23:30Until he couldn't sit.
23:32He lay down.
23:34He died of witness.
23:36Epilogue.
23:381966.
23:39Pitswana Independence.
23:42A surveyor finds a skeleton near Gansey.
23:47Beside it, a stone slab.
23:50Scratched with a knife.
23:52Flour plus seawater plus blood.
23:55Tomato plus nightshade.
23:58Curd plus god milk.
24:01Jerky plus apostle.
24:03Pineapple plus eyes.
24:05Bake till the world ends.
24:08They think it's sand rock art.
24:11Deep in the Kalahari.
24:14Under sand.
24:14A root.
24:16Every hundred years.
24:18It pushes up one leaf.
24:20On the leaf an eye.
24:23It opens.
24:25It looks for rain.
24:26The sky stays iron.
24:29Sam's full backstory.
24:31Born Kalulu.
24:33Losey.
24:34Sam busy.
24:36Father taught him to fish.
24:38Raiders took him at eleven.
24:41Mother died on the march.
24:44Sold to Portuguese.
24:46Survived the Esperanza.
24:49By working galley.
24:51Sam equals listen in Hebrew.
24:54He listened to everything.
24:57Food storms.
24:59Dying men.
25:00The sea took everyone.
25:02He just wanted to feed them.
25:04Before it did.
25:06Enrico's full backstory.
25:09Enrico Fisher.
25:11Disgraced count of Malta.
25:14Mother drowned.
25:15When he was eight.
25:17After he cursed her.
25:18He spent 33 years.
25:21Trying to barter with the sea for her back.
25:24The fruit was his final offer.
25:28The sea laughed.
25:29You wanted the world.
25:32You got a cursed Hawaiian pizza.
25:34At the end of it.
25:36Jane.
25:39Way.
25:46Oh.
25:50Oh.
25:53Yeah.
25:59The sea walked.
26:00No.
26:00Oh.
26:00Oh.
26:00Yeah.
26:01Yeah.
26:02Yeah.
26:02Oh.
26:03Yeah.
26:05You
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