Pronouncing the Mackay-Bennett

By Daniel Eness

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"An undulating blanket of ruin spread to the horizon off the port side of the Mackay-Bennett. Wedged between gray sky and blue-black sea lay the thin brown netting of shattered wood and the dead. The Embalmer saw a bright flash of color: the circle of an unstained red and white lifebelt, bobbing, empty.

He tried to count the bodies, corked and frozen stiff on the waves. Ten. Tens. Fifty. More, spreading, to his untrained eye, for a nautical mile, perhaps more. The crew made grim and determined expressions, but to the Embalmer, it was a ripe field.

He made no effort to contain his round-faced happiness.

'We can work with this, lads!' he said, nodding, 'We can work with this!'"

In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, a humble cable-repair ship is called into emergency duty: a mission to recover the RMS Titanic's dead. As a talented embalmer begins to draw bodies from the deep, a body threatens to draw him into the depths.

Written in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Titanic disaster.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Eness
• Release date: Apr 3, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476106885

Daniel Eness

Daniel Eness writes stories of strange adventure where the hero always wins, except those times when he dies spectacularly in an explosion. He lives in Iowa with his family of six, for whom he writes of the churning seascape of the soul, deep evil and the hope that has overcome them both. His work has appeared in Stupefying Stories, Ideomancer, Diagram and Brain Harvest Magazine, and, in 2012, Eortholic Press will release two novels, a novella and a collection of short adventures.

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PRONOUNCING THE MACKAY-BENNETT

Daniel Eness

Published by Eortholic Press at Smashwords

Copyright 2012 Daniel Eness

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Author's Note

Pronouncing the Mackay-Bennett

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The Embalmer was seasick, like all the other funeral directors on board. The Mackay-Bennett, rose slowly and fell faster, over and over again in a vascillating rhythm for days, locking the cramped vessel into a pattern of unrelenting inducement to nausea. She was