Lone Survivor

By: Robert Shekley

Narrated by: Mike Vendetti

The problem the two men went out in the sailboat to talk over was simple: one was in love with the other man's wife. The solution they reached was also simple - but which one came back?

On August 5, the Coast Guard cutter Seabright put to sea at 13.30 hours, in response to information concerning the auxiliary sloop Hope, and its crew consisting of the owner and one guest. After steaming for three hours through heavy seas and gale-velocity winds, the Hope was encountered at a point four miles east of the Port Everglades offshore buoy. The sailboat was found derelict, and an attempt was made to take it in tow. There was only a single survivor, one man having been washed overboard in an attempt to aid the other.

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