All the men on board the fishing ship, the Borealis, wanted
was to make a good haul to take back home so they could pay
bills and care for their families. Artic fishing can get
really cold and the men were becoming impatient when, after
a full week, they were still coming up empty. Then
everything changed. On the 8th morning, they pulled up a
haul of crabs that set up a cheer among all of the
fishermen. This might just turn into a being a great trip
after all.
One of the old timers, Charlie, had decided that this would
be his last trip out. His wife had left him because he was
gone all the time and had taken his son with her. He wanted
to have time to search for the two of them and he knew that
wasn't going to happen unless he was on land a lot more
often. Yes, Charlie had plans and he was talking these over
with the captain of the ship, Mike, when they both spotted
something extremely odd on the ice covered territory they
were facing.
It became clear with upon closer inspection that it was a
naked young woman. Charlie and Mike went into action and
called up Joe, Bryan and Billy to help. After performing a
somewhat daring rescue, Charlie got the girl on board and
Sammy, another crew member, started giving her CPR because
she wasn't breathing. He managed to get her breathing again,
but he couldn't get away from her fast enough afterward.
They got the girl dressed and some food into her before
asking her such questions as her name and how she came to be
out there on that barren wasteland of ice. She acted odd and
didn't seem to have any answers for them. From that moment
on, everything went downhill.
There was sickness and death and madness where everything
had been normal before. Something is wrong about this girl.
Charlie doesn't know how or why, but he does know that this
odd girl is the reason that crew members are suddenly dying,
becoming sick or losing their minds. But as he starts to
realize that what they brought aboard the ship is pure evil,
he also understands that there's little he can do to stop it.
BOREALIS is one of the most brutal and frightening novellas
you're likely to read. It will also have you scratching your
head in wonderment as to exactly what's going on. Ronald
Malfi takes you on a ride you'll remember long after you've
read that final sentence.
On a routine crabbing expedition in the Bering Sea, Charlie
Mears and the rest of the men aboard the trawler Borealis
discover something unbelievable: a young woman running naked
along the ridge of a passing iceberg. The men rescue her and
bring her aboard the boat. But they will soon learn her
horrible secret. By the time they find out why she was alone
on the ice—and what she truly is—the nightmare will have
begun, as one by one she infects them with an evil that
brings about unimaginable terrors.
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