Winner · Contest #232
The Lantern of Kaamos
In the Arctic’s long polar night, a marine biologist sets out across a landscape of ice and darkness, carrying the absence of the man she loves.
Winner · Reedsy contest #240
Lost and Found
On a lighthouse keeper’s final shift, a storm brings three solitary lives onto the same course. A story of rescue, late chances, and finding a way home.
Read the complete story on Reedsy- Genre
- Suspense / Romance / Adventure
- Setting
- Montauk, New York
- Themes
- Rescue, late chances, connection
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- Reedsy Prompts
The story
Before you begin.
Marge has spent forty years keeping the light at Montauk Point. On the night she is supposed to retire, a stranded boater and an old friend draw her into one more emergency. Out beyond the shore, a failing boat and a gathering storm turn a routine farewell into a test of experience, courage, and the ties people hesitate to name.
Continue to the published story“But it turned out our kind was more needed than ever when the gadgets failed.”
From Lost and Found
In print
04February 2025
Reedsy’s literary magazine
Lost and Found
in PROMPTED.
Selected for the fourth issue of PROMPTED, a collection of twelve prize-winning stories guest edited by David Restaino.
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