IT’S ABOUT TIME THAT YOU READ THE CASKET BY L.K. REPPO Lost at sea and alone, a young castaway struggles against the warring elements and impending death. Suffering from amnesia, he finds it difficult to maintain his sanity while he tries to establish who he really is and how he got there. Are the strange dreams of three seemingly unconnected people, flashbacks of his past, or is there another strange link??? A short extract By the time my flaming enemy had moved into a more prominent position, my eyes hurt from the glare it created on the watery surface, my lips were inflamed and starting to crack, and my exposed skin started to take on a plum-like appearance with the first signs of blisters and boils evident. Dipping my hand into the water and trying to cool off brought little relief, and the salt only caused additional pain and discomfort. “So this is it!” I shouted. “They’ll find my charred remains lying on some stupid box in the middle of the ocean like an Egyptian mummy that was too late for its own funeral. They’ll only have to pop the lid and place me inside.” My wooden friend retained his silent composure, seemingly disinterested in the ranting of a man waiting for a slow and agonizing demise. I turned over onto my stomach, thinking that my back was more resistant to the sun’s relentless attack and that it would spare my face and chest. With tightly closed eyes, I conjured up images of snowfalls in a remote mountain village, an ice-cream parlor where melting sundaes in frosty glasses were the rave, and a forest where a cool waterfall slid down a rocky face crashing into its own image in the liquid mirror below. The pain from my cracked lips snapped me back to reality while my wooden companion rode another small wave beneath me. The moisture in my body was slowly draining away like steam from a boiling pot, taking my energy with it. There were rumors that before you died your life flashed before you like a moving picture story, but there were no images—no pictures of family or friends, or even a scruffy dog, or a mangy cat—just a blank space where memories were supposed to exist. Available worldwide on Amazon Links available below mistwriters.lawlegalklopper.co.za/joomla16/index.php/author-reppo On Smashwords https://smashwords/books/view/410210 And in paperback at Createspace https://createspace/4462345
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