On Jack Thayer's Watch
By Daniel Eness
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In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, a mystery surrounds the funeral of one of the survivors, and the only clue is provided by one of the victims.
A ghostly tale of time, memory and the razor's edge.
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"The icy shock struck him like a hammer, from the inside out. His lungs filled with what at first he thought was sea water. He was under, his clothes dragging him like lead weights. He did not know if he was going up or down. A force, like the hand of God, shoved him hard through the currents.
He split the surface, his face bracing in the breeze. He had spun more than once underneath, and now bobbed, facing the ship.
One of the great funnels had cracked off, still steaming, and struck the ocean. Had it fallen a mere thirty feet in his direction, and Jack would have been crushed. A glowing mass of sparks burst over its surface. Fires lit and snuffed in a losing war against liquid.
The ship had broken in two. A cable twitched like a violin string, and snapped.
Jack was sucked down with the funnel."
Daniel Eness
Daniel Eness writes stories of strange adventure where the hero always wins, except those times when he dies spectacularly in an explosion. He lives in Iowa with his family of six, for whom he writes of the churning seascape of the soul, deep evil and the hope that has overcome them both. His work has appeared in Stupefying Stories, Ideomancer, Diagram and Brain Harvest Magazine, and, in 2012, Eortholic Press will release two novels, a novella and a collection of short adventures.
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On Jack Thayer's Watch - Daniel Eness
ON JACK THAYER'S WATCH
Daniel Eness
Published by Eortholic Press at Smashwords
Copyright 2012 Daniel Eness
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Table of Contents
Story Midpoint
Author's Note
On Jack Thayer's Watch
Of all the ways to survive, this was the worst.
Jack Thayer, middle aged, eyes closed in concentration, seated at the wheel of the late model Ford, a box of razor blades next to him on the long bench seat, knew it for a fact. He'd done enough surviving.
His baptism had come, at age seventeen, on board the RMS Titanic.
That evening, just before survival would become a way of life, he made a friend. Milt Long was his elder by a decade, but hardly seemed it. Spry and jocular, he