Note: This story is a sequel to The Juggernaut.

“Keep tapping, Piper. They’ll find us.”

Underwater archaeologists, on hearing the tapping, secured a line and brought them up.

At their research facility, staff started opening the craft’s hatch.

The captain smiled. “We’re finally home!”

“Thanks for never giving up, Cap.”

Inside, archaeologists found human remains and a whiskey bottle.

Connell Wayne Regner had successfully avoided writing creatively since he wrote spontaneous lyrics to music many years ago. Although from a linguistic background, he has serendipitously succumbed to fiction after spontaneously creating bedtime stories for his children. His other dabblings can be found at paragraphplanet and wtdmagazine.wordpress.com.