Ocean

by Michael Yowell

A man finds himself alone in the middle of the ocean, and his fears and dread escalate as he faces fatigue, thirst, and the inevitable underwater visitors. (A story from the book FRAGMENTS AND SHARDS.)

24 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 6, 2015

About the author

Michael Yowell (1969 - ) was born in Denver, Colorado, and lived in Colorado for 46 years before relocating to his current home in Columbia, South Carolina. He is a horror fiction author. Michael has loved the horror genre since childhood, whether it be in the form of comics, novels, or movies.

His short stories have been published in e-zines and print anthologies (Writing Shift, Sanitarium, Thirteen, and Blood, Brains & Bullets). His books include the haunted house tale DEVILHOUSE, the werewolf-hunter novels THE DOGCATCHER, THE DOGCATCHER II: CHUPACABRAS, and THE DOGCATCHER III: WEREWOLF QUEEN, his short-horror-story collections FRAGMENTS AND SHARDS and FRAGMENTS AND SHARDS II, his terrifying killer-vs-reporter novel THE CAMERA EYE, his sea-monsters trilogy SLIGGERS, SLIGGER ISLAND, and SLIGGER INVASION, the spine-chilling GHOSTFIELD, the creepy PIRANTULAS, and his Western (yes, Western) novel RED PINES.

Reviews

[Jack Chaisey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick read

Enjoyable, short but predictable tale of being lost for a short time at sea and facing internal and external survival issues.