Facing the Music
a flash fiction story
Published in
5 min readOct 8, 2020
It was the end of summer, 1975, and Bob was glad to be heading home. He had loved being on board the iconic Calypso, Jacques Cousteau’s famous sailing vessel, for an expedition to research the effectiveness of satellites in measuring the depths of ocean waters. He had found it exhilarating at first, but after three weeks at sea, the middle-aged West Virginian country boy couldn’t wait to be back…
