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Chapter One - What The Sea Took
Cristian Sirbu Cristian Sirbu

Chapter One - What The Sea Took

Somewhere off the Scottish coast, where the Dogger Bank gives way to deeper channels, lies a black tooth of granite known as Grimleigh Rock. It does not appear on common charts. It is uninhabitable, save for the tower built atop it, and even that is a generous word.

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What follows is an attempt to reconstruct the history of Grimleigh Rock through the fragments left behind - the logbooks, the weather reports, the missing persons notices, and the uncorroborated testimonies of passing ships.

Some say the light has never truly gone out…

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