The Boathouse: A Short Story

The Boathouse: A Short Story

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Where the waves rolling in from the Pacific crash on the East Asian shores, an old widowed Japanese fisherman lives alone in a small boathouse tucked at the foot of a looming sand dune. He rents out the two boats he owns, gives directions to the tourists who ask his advice, and eats his simple meals by lantern light in his home. One cloudy, rainy evening, he receives a peculiar visitor with an even more peculiar request. What, you ask, is it? Turn the pages and read a story that we promise will haunt you.
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Strange things are happening to Kat. Plates and glasses are flying off the shelves, doors are opening and slamming on their own, lights are turning on and off with alarming speed, all of their own accord. As far as she can tell, she is being punished by her dead husband's ghost for insufficient grieving, which is a problem, as she is steeling her nerve to begin dating other men. Battling maritime winter and staving off cabin fever on a dreary resort island off the coast of New England, Kat lives alone in the massive, Victorian mansion she inherited after her husband's passing. But as she attempts to pursue hunky Ky - a seafaring cook at the local bar & grill her husband once managed, the haunting grows in intensity, and she must calm the ghost, or be forever stuck in the past.

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