My short story "Sea-Swallowed," inspired by the shipwreck on the rocks at the end of our road a year or two ago, has been published in The Writers Circle Anthology 2, whose theme is Ends, by Canadian publisher Prime Press.
Stella, the heroine, lives close to here as well, and studies Ocean Sciences at UCSC, though her family's back at home in Wiltshire, England. The shipwreck mirrors life-changes out of Stella's control.
"Watching the commotion as she waited on the bluff for Bengal—Benjie—her Cardigan Welsh Corgi with his brindle (tiger-striped) coat, for once supremely indifferent to the human events, she heard the awful grating, grinding of the hull against the rock the fishing boat was hung up on, the pitiless waves, onslaught after onslaught, breaking it to pieces. The noise and morning cold and foretaste of fatality rasped on her tender skin, chafed even in her lambswool-hooded coat."
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