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The Man Who Caught the Same Fish Thirty Times
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On a moonless November night in 1999, Luna's uncle Ray—a quiet, weathered fisherman out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire—brought something strange aboard his trawler, the 'Sally Ann.' For six hours, he hauled the same fish, a single cod with a white eye and a distinct notch in its tail, again and again, each time in a different drift miles apart. The net came up empty except for that one fish. Ray cut the engine and drifted into a fog that had no business being there. What he saw through the water—a curved spine of something enormous, moving slow and patient beneath the keel—changed the way he looked at the ocean. He never told the whole story, not even to Luna, but she pieced it together from the things he stopped saying. This is what she heard on the deck of the Sally Ann, holding a fish that should not have been caught at all.