"The Last of Mr. Benjimen" - Fantasy Short Story - by Rick Kennett

The Last of Mr. Benjimen

Witnesses at an inquiry into a ship wreck relate the weird and contradictory final moments of one of the passengers.

Rick Kennett has five books on Amazon - two novels: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Presumed Dead.

A novella: In Quinn's Paddock.

And two collections: The Dark and What It Said and Thirty Minutes for New Hell, which now includes an additional new story, The Gods in their Galleries.

And in addition to the anthology War of the Worlds, Battleground Australia he has also had stories in two more, Damnation Games and The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Follies and Grottoes.

"The Last of Mr Benjimen" is loosely based on the sinking of the steamer Empress of Ireland in Canada's St Lawrence River in 1914 after a collision that by all rights should never have happened.

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