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 Excerpt from my novel FATE                                A Remembered Short Story               The sea, with all its beauty and danger, had now become a conflict zone for Captain Emmet Meagher, a place where he fought against his inner demons after the loss of his leg to the Son of Moby. While sitting at the waterfront longer than he had planned, gazing out at the place in the bay where, at one time, he liked to anchor The Lilly White, Emmet found himself among the ghosts of his past, again. He was mentally marred by the two seamen and the boy he had lost to drowning in the merciless Atlantic Ocean, near the west coast of Ireland, and not far from where the Spanish Armada sank.          An old sperm whale, disoriented in her death throes, struggling for survival, overturned their small boat with a violent thrust of her massive body...