Undertow

Twenty-eight days into a long voyage at sea, he stops sleeping. What begins as small, restless fears—whispers in the hull, shadows on the horizon, the creeping sense of being watched—slowly twists him into someone unrecognizable. The ocean stretches vast and merciless around them, eroding reason and trust alike. When a violent storm fractures the sky, paranoia turns physical, and a single desperate moment sends him overboard into the dark.

The crew calls it an accident.

But when she returns t...