By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled
Three young immortals, who raced to the rescue of two small rowing boats caught in a squall off Microphone Island, were drowned Thursday afternoon but remained alive. The three were resting just below the sand, leaching ideas and energies from the earth itself, when they sensed the distress of the rowers and swam to the help of the craft, only to be overpowered by Poseidon Epactaeus. Two were flung back to land. The third was stunned as if struck. He drifted more than six miles out to sea, where he floated until life flowed back into him, at which point he rose and rejoined his compatriots on the shore. The families of the dead rowers were located, made to understand their loss, and comforted, at which point a celebration was then arranged in honor of the immortals. Some described it as a gorgeous garden party, others as a picnic on the grand scale.
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