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The ship came back on schedule. Nobody aboard came back alive.
The Meridian Star has crossed four hundred miles of open Atlantic without answering a single call. Its engines are running. Its lights still turn through the dark. Its autopilot is bringing it home.
The boarding team expects pirates, hostages, or mechanical failure. What they find is a ship full of the dead—and something below deck that has not stopped working.
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A ship should not be able to keep its course after everyone aboard is dead.
The boarding team can prepare for pirates. They can prepare for hostages. They can prepare for a failed engine or a desperate crew. They cannot prepare for a vessel that no longer needs the living.
About T.P. Grimbard
T.P. Grimbard writes dark fiction about monsters, folklore, recovered accounts, and the ordinary systems that continue working after they should have stopped. He is the author of the There Be Monsters anthology series, The Scarab, and the Lost Boundary Archive.