Description: In a post-nuclear Eastern Europe, Hammel E Varka departs for a remote island to join a survey team cataloguing the abandoned Gollitok prison in the hopes that he will redeem his family's tarnished reputation. After the passage across the strait leaves a team member injured, Varka quickly realizes that this survey is far from routine and that what he thought he knew about the island was a cover for more horrifying truths. As his team presses deeper into the decaying facility, hidden agendas splinter the team, and they find themselves beset with dangers beyond their worst nightmares.
Contains mature themes.Brief description: Andrew Najberg is the author of the novel The Mobius Door as well as the collection of poems The Goats Have Taken Over the Barracks. His short fiction has appeared in Prose Online, Psychopomp Review, Bookends Review, The Colored Lens, Utopia Science Fiction, The Gateway Review, Dark Death Things, and Creepy podcast. Currently, he teaches for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and is serving as a senior editor for Symposeum magazine.