A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
Where does the story take place?
A ruthless U-boat commander loses control of his submarine and drifts toward ruins on the Atlantic floor.
A lonely lighthouse keeper boards a white ship under the full moon and sails through dreamlike lands of beauty, mystery, and danger.
After a motor race, a wealthy young Irishman joins his foreign friends for a night of celebration.
A fisherman becomes fixated on a visitor he hears playing the church organ.
A feared Albanian bandit carries a child across the mountains, leaving a family to chase a terrifying rumor.
A grieving traveler follows an unexplained beacon to an abandoned Welsh tower.
A Polish exile in Naples finds love while carrying papers that could imperil an empire.
Exiled by his own pride, a reckless nobleman accepts a stranger's miraculous bargain.
On a crowded war-bound ship in 1864, a plague of lice gives two samurai factions something more urgent to fight about.
A submarine officer deserts rather than help begin total nuclear war, but enemy vessels force him to decide what he is still willing to fight for.
