Spirit of the Sea

By Marley Quinn

Edward, an American man bored with his job at a deserted beach kiosk in Italy, finds his life upended when a ethereally beautiful teenage girl invites him for a spicy frolic in the sea. But the locals warn that she is a restlesss spirit who lures men to a watery grave.

• Language: English
• Publisher: samcelroman
• Release date: Jun 13, 2024
• ISBN: 9798227042606

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Dana

Edward yawned.

Here he was, living his dream of a summer abroad in Italy, and yet he was bored out of his skull.

When his friend Roberto had first offered him the job working at his beachfront kiosk, Edward had been pumped. Making a little money and spending all day watching beautiful girls in bikinis? What more could you ask for?

But what Roberto hadn't told him was that, first of all, the temperatures every day were scorching hot, as in burn your bare feet if you walked on the sand hot. And secondly, the beach was basically abandoned.

Unfortunately, Edward didn't speak enough Italian to truly understand what was going on, but he knew it was something about inflation and the exchange rate of the euro or something.

And so, today, like every other day, he was stuck sitting in the tiny two-by-three-foot kiosk, waiting for someone to come along and ask for a can of Pringles or an overpriced bottle of some very warm water.

With no electricity, and far out of range of the nearest hotel's wi-fi, every day felt like an eternity.

Edward was sitting back, flipping through an Italian fashion magazine, when all of a sudden, he noticed that he had a customer.

Squinting through his sunglasses, Edward was