Stranger Seas Than These
ShortStory 4,020 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
"It is two days since our original projected mission end date. We are running out of oxygen and we are trapped in the throat of a god. Technology and a prudent safety review panel have kept casualties on deep dives low, but abyssal layer dives have always been risky. Still, there hasn’t been a fatality in years..."
Content warnings 1
death
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.