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No Country for the Tide
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The first pages were ordinary survey notes. Then the handwriting changed. The dead man had found the Meridian settlers' last records. They hadn't fled the rising sea. Year after year, they had fed something to it to keep the island from sinking for good. The bargain had finally broken. Halloran heard the captain's boots stop outside the wheelhouse door.
The captain pushed open the door, eyes on the notebook. "So now you know," he said quietly. "The thing under the island is hungry again, and the boat needs to come home empty or not at all." Halloran shut the notebook. "Then turn us around," he said. The captain shook his head. "Too late. We already counted you as one who came."
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