Sixty-Four Days, A Sea Story

By Malcolm Torres

Sixty-four days from now, Senior Chief Brendan O'Reilly will retire after 30-years in the US Navy, but today he's working on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier—the most dangerous 4.5 acres on the planet. Today, he has to stop daydreaming about visiting National Parks with his lovely wife, Diane, in their new motorhome. Today, Brendan O'Reilly has to focus on keeping himself and his shipmates alive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Malcolm Torres
• Release date: Apr 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9780986022920

Malcolm Torres

If you like adventure, crime, science fiction and horror set aboard ships at sea and in ports of call, then you'll like Malcolm Torres.After serving in the Navy he went to college in Boulder, Colorado where he read novels and wrote stories. Over the years he's paid the bills by working as a cook, a teacher and a project manager.Malcolm's writing has appeared in the Viking Monthly, the Colorado Daily and High Times. He is a scuba diver, a sailor of small boats, a mountain bike rider, a downhill skier and a golf addict. He lives in the forest outside Portland, Oregon.Connect with Malcolm on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Blogger @seastoriesandsciencefiction.For old time and original stories, try the Sea Stories and Science Fiction Podcast available on all podcast apps and websites.

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SIXTY-FOUR DAYS

A Sea Story

By Malcolm Torres

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real people or actual events is purely coincidental. The narrator assumes responsibility for tampering with anything that does not match the reader’s version of reality. Please visit www.malcolmtorres.com for additional information.

SIXTY-FOUR DAYS

By Malcolm Torres

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SIXTY-FOUR DAYS

A Sea Story

By Malcolm Torres

Shit, the flight deck is the most dangerous place on the planet. There’s forty jets up there and some are being fueled with their engines running while having armed lethal weapons attached to their wings. One or two at a time they’re being launched off the front of the ship by steam-powered catapults that accelerate from zero to a hundred-fifty miles-per-hour in three seconds, or landing on the back end in what’s basically a controlled crash. Anonymous Deckhand

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When Senior Chief Brendan O’Reilly stepped onto the flight deck, his red brows clamped down over eyes that were suddenly hard like black ball bearings. He stared at a yellow ordnance cart chained to the black nonskid deck. The sight of four quarter-ton bombs strapped on the cart sent a nervous shiver jangling down the bones in his lower back.

As O’Reilly walked across the flight deck, his fresh starched khakis chafed against the old burn scar on his right thigh. A quick glance across the brilliant blue sky told him it was going to be another cloudless eighty-five-degree day with light breezes out of the north. In his headset an ordnanceman down in the magazine gave an inventory of the