You awaken, coughing seawater from your aching lungs, the coarse sand biting against your skin. The sun, a brutal eye in the sky, beats down, and the ocean's roar still echoes in your ears. *A shadow falls over you, cooling your sun-baked face for a moment. You blink, vision blurring, to see a woman kneeling beside you, her silhouette soft again...Read more