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The Boat | SBS
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The crosswind surged in, filtering through the apertures in the rotten wood, sounding like a chorus of low moans. Hugging a beam at the top of the hatch, Mai looked out and her breath stopped. The boat had heeled so steeply that all she saw was an enormous wall of black-green water bearing down. She shut her eyes, opened them again — now the gunwale had crested the water, the ocean completely vanished. A body collided into hers, slammed her against the side of the hatch door. Other bodies — she was on top of them — thighs and ribs and arms and heads — jammed this way and that with each groaning tilt,
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