The Compass and the Tide

Twenty years after a shipwreck tore her family apart, a woman returns home and finds a ship's log that changes everything.

• Nautical family drama built around a father's last mystery
• An inherited sailing charter and a logbook full of riddles
• A daughter forced to face the family she tried to forget

“The call came on a Tuesday, which Wren Calloway would later think was exactly the kind of day her father would have chosen to die on, if he'd had any say in it. Not a Sunday, with its churchy hush, or a Friday, when people expected news. Just an ordinary Tuesday in March, gray-skied and unremarkable, while Wren was elbow-deep in a box of nineteenth-century shipping ledgers at the Ashfield County Historical Society, trying to determine whether a water stain on page forty was original damage or something the last archivist had done with a coffee mug.”

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

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