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No Country for the Tide
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Halloran lunged for her gun. They grappled in the mud, the pistol firing once into the sky. He wrenched it free and stood, breathing hard, the weapon now in his hand. The woman laughed from the ground. "You don't even know what you just won," she said, nodding at the open hole.
Halloran looked into the open hole. At the bottom lay a sealed iron door, and pressed against it from the inside was a pale handprint, far too large to be human. The woman was still laughing. He backed away, gun lowered, and ran for the dinghy as the tide rushed in. Some prizes you win by leaving them buried.
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