Sequoia Nagamatsu

Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the novel, How High We Go in the Dark (Harper Collins, 2022) and the story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). He is the managing editor of Psychopomp Magazine and an associate professor of creative writing at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. More at SequoiaNagamatsu.com

The Passage of Time in the Abyss

Sequoia Nagamatsu

Storm clouds drift over the Sea of Japan as if large pieces of charcoal were dragged across the sky. Ryu, the steersman of the fishing trawler Columbo, checks the weather forecast on his phone, flipping through the interactive display. They’ll be heading toward the confluence of two storm systems if they leave now. He scratches […]