The Submerged

By T L Sallie

It is the year 2047 and the world’s cities are being flooded, due to the rapidly rising sea levels. Phillip Hoffman Jr., a resident of London, has just lost his job and has been forced to move to a downstairs apartment where he can still afford to pay the rent. Realizing that he hasn’t been paying much attention to himself, lately—much less the world around him—he decides to change his routine and find out more about his own surroundings.

This is when he meets Clara, a long-time neighbor of his that he’d never taken the time to get to know—much like everyone else in his neighborhood. He asks her out on a date, she accepts, and things are beginning to look up for him. That is—until his day starts to go horribly wrong...

While facing a series of unforeseen obstacles, complications, and other difficulties, Phillip and Clara end up discovering something catastrophic that had actually always been right up under their noses—they had just never realized the magnitude of the situation until the very last moment...

• Language: English
• Publisher: T L Sallie
• Release date: Sep 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370767489

T L Sallie

T L Sallie was born in a small town in Pennsylvania. She is the oldest of five, and grew up with three younger sisters and a younger brother. She fell in love with reading and writing at a very early age and started writing poetry and short stories in elementary school. She won several awards throughout her school-aged years and started ghostwriting for other published authors in her adult years. When she is not writing, she is usually reading a good book, spending time with her family or watching a good movie on NetFlix. You can contact this author at: [e-mail]

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THE

SUBMERGED

T. L. Sallie

Premise

It is the year 2047 and the world’s cities are being flooded, due to the rapidly rising sea levels. Phillip Hoffman Jr., a resident of London, has just lost his job and has been forced to move to a downstairs apartment where he can still afford to pay the rent. Realizing that he hasn’t been paying much attention to himself, lately—much less the world around him—he decides to change his routine and find out more about his own surroundings.

This is when he meets Clara, a long-time neighbor of his that he’d never taken the time to get to know—much like everyone else in his neighborhood. He asks her out on a date, she accepts, and things are beginning to look up for him. That is—until his day starts to go horribly wrong…

While facing a series of unforeseen obstacles, complications, and other difficulties, Phillip and Clara end up discovering something catastrophic that had actually always been right up under their noses—they had just never realized the magnitude of the situation until the very last moment…

Prologue:

Phillip Hoffman Jr. awoke sleepily from his bed. He checked the clock on the bedside table for the time:

12:01 a.m.

With an awkward, yet usual maneuver, he enthusiastically rose from his bed, eyes still half shut. He slipped his feet into his the warm bunny slippers that awaited him on the bedroom floor and began to make his way to the kitchen, dragging his feet heavily across the warm, carpeted floor. Reaching his destination, he opened the fridge, somehow both grudgingly and impatiently, and considered his