Contributor: Andrew Ross - - Topic Sentence “It’s my fault,” the man said to himself. “I did this.” Initiating Circumstance A boat. Water. Wind. Rain. Dialogue The man sits on the pillowed bed deep inside the sailboat’s cabin. Sees water slipping through the closed door. He thinks. Moves from the obvious to the speculative. Figures his wife and their two friends are dead. The water must have flooded the rest of the cabin by now. The boat’s probably already submerged. That bang must have been the hull hitting rocks, another boat. Maybe it was the boom collapsing. His friends were smashed when the boom fell. If he had been on deck he could have maneuvered the boat to safety. He could have prevented the mast from crushing their skulls. He could have saved them. He could have— Backstory The man had a recurring dream haunt him since youth....

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Author: Andrew Ross