20 degrees north, 62 west. The outer rise of the Puerto Rico Trench, a hundred miles north of Anguilla. New Moon, 1% visible. Kraken darkness, lit only by octopus phosphorescence and the bright detonations of ejaculating eels. Theyโve been travelling in tandem for five days now, through frittering flames of fertilised ova and the disarticulate, […]
Excerpt from The European Eel
Steve Ely
