Signal Lost

A crippled submarine crew has three days to fix their communications before rescue gives up looking.

• Tense military thriller aboard a crippled submarine
• A reactor failure with communications gone dark
• A race against time three hundred meters under the sea

“Lieutenant Commander Ava Reyes had spent eleven years in the submarine service learning to read a boat through her feet and her ears before she ever trusted a single readout, and every instinct trained into her by those eleven years was screaming, three hundred meters beneath the surface of the Norwegian Sea, that something aboard the USS Corvina had just gone quietly, catastrophically wrong. It began as a shudder too faint to register on any gauge, felt rather than measured, traveling through the deck plates during what should have been a routine deep patrol, and Reyes, standing watch in the control room, caught the chief of the boat's eyes across the compartment and saw her own unease mirrored back at her before either of them had said a word.”

Format: Instant PDF download after purchase.

Length: A full short story — about 25–35 minutes to read.

Works on: Any device with a PDF reader — phone, tablet, e-reader, or computer.