Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A state-of-the-art vessel with a passenger manifest composed of the era’s social elite travels at a dangerous rate of speed and hits a partially submerged object, resulting in the vessel sinking with few survivors. If you guessed the White Ship disaster of 1120, very surprising answer—you know your shipwrecks—but no, we had the Titanic sinking in mind.
The parallels don’t end there. Both were allegedly doomed from the beginning, with priests barred from boarding and blessing the White Ship, and the Titanic with its botched champagne christening (not to mention the rumored cursed mummy sarcophagus in its cargo hold). Both presaged periods of turmoil: the White Ship followed by The Anarchy and the Titanic, World War One. And finally, both were ultimately offerings to the sea, and while Poseidon may be its ruler, the true personification of the mausoleum of shipwrecks that is the ocean’s cold depths is
EREBUS
Serving as first mate for this maiden voyage down to Davy Jones' locker is Grant Wamack, author of God's Leftovers, The Frolicking, and The Scarecrows Will Watch Over Us, tarot reader, Navy veteran, and member of the Broken River Books collective, a veritable pirate band on the high seas of independent literature.
"There are more than 3 million shipwrecks in the world. Less than one percent have been located."
FICTION
- BATHERS AT THE GRAVE by Hanna Karras
- PARALLEL TO HELL by Ronald Plumber
- PUMP ROOM A-109 by Alexandra Naughton
- RACE FOR THE GOLDEN GLOBE by C.Hightower
- REGARDING THE PLEASURABLE, LOW-PROFILE DISASTER ABOARD THE ZM-9039 FAETON by Karter Mycroft
- THE RESURRECTION OF EBENEZER BLASSIE by Arbogast
- UN FILS DE SEDNA by Ron Arbuckle
POETRY
- "SINGLETON" by Alexander Ross
- "THE FRANCIS MAY" by Parker Galloway
- "USS ORIZABA" by Damon Hubbs
Artwork by Robert Voyvodic
