Quotes About Castaways

'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.

In late 2001, I contributed a short story called 'Castaways' to an anthology called 'In Laymon's Terms,' which was a tribute to Richard Laymon, who had passed away earlier that year.

Losses Most losses add something- A new socket or silence, A gap in a personal Archipelago of islands. We have that difference To visit- itself A going-on of sorts. But there are other losses So far beyond report That they leave holes In holes only Like the ends of the Long and lonely lives Of castaways Thought dead but not.

The storm had stranded the castaways about seventy miles from the rest of the fleet, without food or wood or fresh water

The castaways spent eight days in more or less the same area, disoriented, dispirited, waiting for pieces of the wreck

And for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.