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Synopsis
Fleeing
from a troubled past that left him feeling tarnished and used, Sean finds work
as a medic aboard the deep sea mining ship Ariel, on a
distant planet.
Under
the leader ship of the infuriating, yet charismatic, Captain Joel Riley, Sean
settles into his simple, but dangerous, new life. It’s a life he soon comes to
love; albeit one in which he conceals his sexuality and avoids
intimacy.
But
Sean’s new world is turned on its head when an old face threatens to expose him
for the man he used to be.
With
Joel’s help, will Sean learn to come to terms with his past and become a man he
can be proud of?
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Excerpt
THE HARDEST THING about working on Ariel was the absence of day and night. That deep in the ocean the hours passed in meaningless numbers as the ship floated in the endless depths of Titan, a rich oceanic moon orbiting Jupiter. Sean’s body clock had never adjusted. Three seasons underwater and he still found himself falling asleep during his shift in the infirmary or staring up at his bedroom ceiling, wide awake.
His
head dropped sharply, the suddenness of it waking him up. He looked about,
checking that no one had been in and caught him napping. Any of the five other
crew members onboard were capable of tormenting him when his guard was down.
During his first season the pranks were unbearable, but Sean had been a
different man back then. He didn’t understand how to fit in and be part the
crew. He took their games to heart for a long time.
It
was better now. He was better. They still played their pranks, and sometimes he
still got annoyed, but he appreciated them. The crew were family, and he cared
for them all deeply. He never thought a man from his walk of life, with all his
wealth and all his privilege, would happily settle on a rusty old mining ship
with a group of feral deep-sea laborers. He expected the rest of the crew
thought the same.
Sean
stretched and yawned. His body had changed dramatically since he’d taken his
first dive, too. You had to be strong and maintain good physical health working
this deep. His body was toned and lithe and bigger than it had been when he
first showed up on Titan looking for a job.
“You’re
a bit young and scrawny to be a doctor, aren’t you?” the captain had said to
him that day in the docking station, seeing a man barely scraping twenty-three
and not fit for more than standing around and looking pretty.
Sean
had given him some pompous reply that still made him cringe when he thought
back to it. Sometimes he suspected the captain only took him on to try to break
him. Captain Riley could be a sadistic bastard when he wanted to
be.
About the author
A.L.
BATES has a keen interest in Sci-fi and adventure novels and enjoys writing
stories with strong characters in imaginative backgrounds. Although an avid writer,
Deep is the first
published novella by A.L. Bates.
A.L. Bates can be found on
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authora
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