Shit.

Was that the sound of crunching bones? He couldn't tell over the screams of his victim and the whine of the backhoe. Fuck, he should've taped the guy's mouth shut, but at the time he'd relished the idea that no one would hear the fucker screaming his last words.

He swung his body sideways out of the operator's seat and yelled, "Corny, shut the fuck up, I can't hear what I'm doing up here!"

He was pretty new to the mechanics of working a backhoe but seemed ...