story: Pagans
author: Rick Bass
year: 2006
where: islands
note: I might have ended up doing some needless research on diving bells…
a line: “Even now, Richard thinks they missed each other by a hairs-breadth, that some sort of fate was deflected–though how or why or what, he cannot say. He thinks it might have been one of the closest misses in the history of the world.”
samantha Neugebauer 
Good job!
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