This is a longer short story which arose from a Writers’ Circus challenge.

The topic/title/theme was “High Water Mark”. On this occasion the topic was set by me.

This work has been edited by my friend Kareth Patterson from Writers’ Circus. She is a multi-talented person, very special. (She would immediately edit out the word “very”!!!)

On reading it she said it reminded her of the novelist Alistair MacLean- high praise indeed.