Ed Falco On the Air
Ed Falco reading his own short stories, as well as stories by Steve Gibson, Alyson Hagy, Kristina Gorcheva Newberry, Kyle Minor, Matthew Vollmer--and Nathaniel Hawthorne. More info about ed falco is available at https://www.edfalco.us
Ed Falco On the Air
S2E8 Semper Paratus by Alyson Hagy
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A short story by Alyson Hagy. “Semper Paratus”—the Coast Guard motto, meaning “Always Ready”—follows Randall, the lone woman in a Coast Guard rescue crew stationed on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, nicknamed the graveyard of the Atlantic. The story unfolds in the aftermath of a disturbing rescue attempt, and like much of Hagy’s writing, it’s less interested in melodrama than in the complicated emotional residue left behind: guilt, endurance, rivalry, loneliness, and the strange intimacies forged under pressure.