Setting the scene…

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Saltwater Year
After a sudden firing, a city executive moves to a coastal town for one year. The town has plans of its own.
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Previously
…He remembered the days when his phone would buzz incessantly, a lifeline to a world that demanded his attention. Now, it lay dormant, a cold, black rectangle in his pocket. He’d even considered calling his father, the man he’d been dreading seeing, the man who represented everything he’d run from. But the thought of that call, the confession of his utter failure, was a chasm too wide to bridge. He was drowning in the quiet, the vast, indifferent ocean of Port Blossom mirroring the desolation within him. He was a ghost in a town that had once embraced him, a pariah in a place that had promised a new beginning, and no one, not a single soul, seemed to notice he was sinking.