Stormin’ Norman’s Ferry

Fiction by Matt Knutson

Stormin’ Norman, broad of chest and red of neck, fished off the Mexican coast when he felt a great punch on the line. This jolt from the sunken world roused him from lassitude, from a floppy-hatted contentment atop the Sea of Cortez, barely within sight of the town of San Felipe. His noonday blood set to circling. The sky was a cloudless and gracious bl…