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Isolated in the Gulf of Mexico, he watches the ship disappear while he calls for help that no one can hear, confronting shock, pain, and dark memories. The narrative interweaves survival urgency with personal history, body image, and the question of how he ended up in the water, ending on a tense, unresolved threat.","Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster ebook.  \nGet a FREE ebook when you join our mailing list. Plus, get updates on new releases, deals, recommended reads, and more from Simon & Schuster. Click below to sign up  \nand see terms and conditions.  \nCLICK HERE TO SIGN UP  \nAlready a subscriber? Provide your email again so we can register this ebook and send you more of what you like to read. You will continue to receive exclusive offers in  \nyour inbox.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFOR LUKA, WHO LOVES THE SEAANDALL ITS CREATURES  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nI who once wrote songs with joyful zeal Am driven by grief to enter weeping mode.  \n—Boethius, The Consolation ofPhilosophy  \nWhenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul […] then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball.  \n—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \n11:45 p. m . , November 27  \nThe sea is, if anything, famously huge.  \nMy entire life I’ve feared and hated it. People who claim to love the ocean underestimate its vastness. With a few exceptions, despite being the Nebraska state champion in the ϯve-hundred-meter freestyle in 2009, I’ve declined to go deeper than where my feet can touch sand.  \nI appear to be in the midst of a major exception, a gooey soup that I am stunned to be immersed in, freaking out, eyes open, burning in the saline, turning my body toward what I hope is up. Breath held, legs and arms pumping, panic pushes me to inhale, but I refuse, and everything hurts.  \nMy boat shoes—Sperry Top-Siders bought with an eye roll because I was going on a boat—waterlog around my feet, the leather keeping me from kicking freely. Crackles of pain excruciate my soles as I pry them oϦ, toe to heel, toe to heel, and keep thrusting up. Bones broken entering the water? Probably?  \nI peel my pants oϦ, as they feel animate, like living things clinging and pulling me down. My button-up shirt, too, until I’m naked save my boxers, out of some autopilot sense of propriety, and my tank top that—also out of some autopilot sense of not wanting to be scolded by Kelly or Justeen—I avoid thinking of as awifebeater. I might have tried to keep my socks if they hadn’t been shucked oϦ with the shoes, and my oxygen-starved brain debates whether I should have done this striptease, the cost of the warmth the garments might have provided versus the beneϯt ofthe ability to swim unencumbered, but all my body argues is that I have to breathe.  \nThick with seventy-something humid degrees, the air I gasp when my face breaks the surface clogs my nostrils with briny slime. My ears throb with the unpopped pressure of my plunge, yet I hear myself scream: “Ma! Mom!”—stupid not only because I’m a grown-ass thirty-three-year-old man, but because my mom has been gone for twenty-two of those years.  \n“Stop! Help! Come back! Help me!” The words muϬe and die at the water’s surface, the black bowl of midnight stiϲing my cries. Star-punctured, the tropical night is enormous. Bigger still swells the sea—much colder—around me.  \nThe ship cruises beyond my reach, a monstrous fourteen-story layer cake receding in a southerly direction, leaving me with a view known to few people in history: their vessel untethered in the open ocean.  \nThe victims of the Titanic, for example, saw a version of what I am seeing, only they plunged into the frigid North Atlantic through no fault of their own, but rather a fatal combination of questionable-captain-meets-exceptionaliceberg. Me, I’m in the tepid Gulf of Mexico and my ship is ϯne. Never better. Away she goes. 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