Chapter 1 · free to read
Naruse keeps two tide tables. One for the boats. One for the bell.
It has no clapper. It has not had one for sixty years. It rings anyway.
Ei Tanabe. Drowned in fifty-eight. Struck out of the record the same week.
One diver left in Naruse. Forty-one names still in the water. And the tide already turning.
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