In the beginning was the word, and the word was 'enough'.
On a luxury ship sailing across the North Sea, seven people are negotiating key moments in their lives. These moments will dwindle to meaninglessness when their ship is arbitrarily chosen as the stage on which will be rehearsed a cataclysmic drama of divine salvation and retribution.
This story has also been published in the collection Fluctuation in Disorder.
Susan Maxwell is an independent author and scholar who has had short stories and poetry published in magazines and anthologies; has published a short story collection (Fluctuation in Disorder) independently; has had one novel (Good Red Herring) published by Little Island Books, and a further three (Hollowmen, And the Wildness, and A Wild Goose Hunt) published independently; has served on fiction and non-fiction juries for the British Fantasy Awards; has a PhD in Archival Science and writes on themes related to archives and fiction; reviews regularly for Inis (the magazine of Children’s Books Ireland); is influenced most by speculative and modernist fiction, being particularly fond of Flann O'Brien, Calvino, Beckett, and Woolf.
When not writing, or painting, or being an archivist, the author can be found in the vegetable patch, listening to music, reading books, watching old detective series, or catching up on sleep.
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