A Descent into the Maelstrom

A descent into the maelstrom is a story told three years following the actual event being narrated by a spectator second hand. The story takes off atop a Norwegian mountain where an old man begins to describe a set of events in which a chaotic, turbulent sea robbed him of his family. As the horrified listener peers over the ledge of the mountain he witnesses the horrifying abyss that once claimed the mans brothers, the Maelstrom.
The story begins with the narrator and his brothers, three experienced fishermen who often venture to fish the more baneful waters of northern Norway. Often a time the brothers would venture out to these sinister waters unscathed aside from two a time in which the weather was most inhospitable, stranding them once a night and once a week. The brothers had become so accustom to the predictability of the Maelstrom that they could place its occurrence within the hour. Thus knowing that, like clockwork, the Maelstrom would......

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Title: A Descent Into The Maelstrom
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Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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