Catalog · No. S09 of 9
Layout specimen. This title is not on the publishing record, has no ISBN, and is not offered for rights or sale.
No. S09
Off Station
Richard Roe
Plate
Layout sample
Off Station
The relief signed the log. The river had not read it.
Stories · Stories · Industrial fiction
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The book
A relief arrives early and inherits a number he does not believe. A buoy is back on station in the log and still missing on the water. A woman signs the book because the procedure says the watch is over, and then sits another hour because the radio is not finished with her.
off station (adj.)
Not where the chart, the schedule, or the last person said it would be.