Submerged

By BP Gregory

An isolated, frail old man trapped in his apartment. What possible threat could he pose to the sociopaths next door? Except Brendan has his wife's foolish bravery to live up to ...

Oppressive horror Submerged is part of a suite of short sci-fi, urban fantasy and horror stories by BP Gregory, each its own little maelstrom of human suffering and longing.

Submerged can be enjoyed alone or as part of Orotund: Collected Short Stories Volume Two, which is also available in print.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BP Gregory
• Release date: Aug 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301634682

BP Gregory

BP Gregory has been an archaeology student and a dilettante of biology, psychology, and apocalypse prepping. She is the author of five novels including the recently released Flora & Jim, about a father who’ll do anything to keep his daughter alive in a frozen wasteland.BP Gregory lives in Melbourne with her husband and is currently working on The Newru Trail, a murder-mystery set in a world where houses eat your memories. For stories, reviews and recommendations as she ploughs through her to-read pile visit bpgregory.com

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Submerged

A short story

by BP Gregory

Submerged Copyright © 2013 BP Gregory

Lunchbox Copyright © 2015 BP Gregory

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This is a work of fiction. Places and place names are either fictional, or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to persons either living or dead is purely co-incidental.

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Acknowledgments

Thankyou to my perfectly normal and lovely neighbours, who in all innocence inquired as to whether I’d been murdered, and then chuckled that it would make a great story idea.

Submerged cover image by AlexussK courtesy of Shutterstock.

The Town cover image by Ortodox, Lunchbox cover image by kamontad999 (along with a millipede by Sakdinon Kadchiangsaen), Orotund cover image by Alex Malikov, Flora & Jim cover image by Marcel Jancovic, and Visit the Website image by Peter Dedeurwaerder