Marooned Stories

The boat captain's warnings about the approaching storm had come too late. By the time he'd turned the small charter vessel back toward the main island, the sky had already darkened to an ominous grey-green. Now, as Mia clung to the splintered piece of hull that had washed ashore with her, she could hardly believe how quickly everything had gone wrong. "Jen!" she called out, her voice hoarse from swallowing seawater. Reli...

The sunsets on this island don’t just fade—they transform, spreading their colors slow and deliberate across the sky. Magenta melting into lavender, lavender bleeding into gold, all of it mirrored in the steady glass of the sea. During the day, that sea is blue. Not just blue—endlessly blue, stretching unbroken from horizon to horizon, so vast and untouched it feels more like a painting than something real. And for all th...