Stories tagged “castaway”

  • Washed Ashore

    I awakened on the sand, my lungs forcibly expelling water. The beach was no more than a white-hot glare to my eyes, and the grit tore painfully on my sunburned and peeling skin. But I was alive. The passage of time was slow, adrift on the ocean. I reme...

  • Manny and the Raft

    Manny wiggled his toes in the water, now an inch deep. He’d long since given up hope of being discovered, but he didn’t want to drown. He kept his hands on the soft and yielding point in the rubber, the cold water was quietly gushing in and...