Steamboat Slough

By John Schettler
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Published: March 24, 2011
Words: 91675 (approximate)
Language: English

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Based on a real story, time, and place where the author once served as a volunteer teacher in an Eskimo village, Steamboat Slough recounts an ancient Yupik legend that recounts an experience consistently reported through every culture and era of human history. It is a tale that has a universal, almost archetypal quality about it, a strange alchemy of science, soul, and mythology.

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Steamboat Slough

It was just a simple ghost story, or so Daniel believed… Something to frighten children away from the wreckage of an old steamboat where it jutted from the ice of the frozen river. There was something under that ice... Something bad, something hungry, something cold.

For Daniel Edwards, returning to the old mission site near the Yukon where he once taught school, the wreck of an old steamboat becomes more than a tale told by village elders. His curiosity is something he would soon come to regret when a strange encounter on Steamboat Slough opens a portal to forces older than history itself.

It has come upon sleepers for millennia, a malevolent presence that leaps upon them in the night, stealing life, and breath, and soul. It haunts the gossamer thin region between wakefulness and sleep, prowling at the edge of a dream. To this day, its victims report a startling reality to these experiences, and now modern science has determined that when the “entity” appears... (Read more) Steamboat Slough

It was just a simple ghost story, or so Daniel believed… Something to frighten children away from the wreckage of an old steamboat where it jutted from the ice of the frozen river. There was something under that ice... Something bad, something hungry, something cold.

For Daniel Edwards, returning to the old mission site near the Yukon where he once taught school, the wreck of an old steamboat becomes more than a tale told by village elders. His curiosity is something he would soon come to regret when a strange encounter on Steamboat Slough opens a portal to forces older than history itself.

It has come upon sleepers for millennia, a malevolent presence that leaps upon them in the night, stealing life, and breath, and soul. It haunts the gossamer thin region between wakefulness and sleep, prowling at the edge of a dream. To this day, its victims report a startling reality to these experiences, and now modern science has determined that when the “entity” appears, the reporting victim is actually not asleep at all!

What is it that still haunts sleepers with a primal lust that is never satisfied? Why has this experience been consistently reported in the mythology of every culture and era of human history? How can a dream become so real that remnants of the night vision appear in real life, challenging our brave fabrications of what is real, and what is unreal?

Based on a real story, time, and place where the author once served as a volunteer teacher in an Eskimo village, Steamboat Slough recounts an ancient Yupik legend in a tale that has a universal, almost archetypal quality about it, a strange alchemy of science, soul, and mythology.
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suspense thriller, alaska, yukon territory, dream and reality, mythic mystery, eskimo mythology

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