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The Saboteur

A short story for your enjoyment

Ian Worrall
3 min readApr 24, 2020

I have posted this short story for your enjoyment, read all the way to the bottom to find out where you can pick up my novels No Remorse No Regret and No Rest For The Vengeful.

The submarine had to surface, and this would be my chance to escape possibly if we’re close enough to shore. They knew there was a saboteur on board, and it could be any one of 20 people. I was on an important mission, to sabotage this new class of sub by our enemy and transmit our location from where we would be surfacing.

I Just had to make sure they never find out it was me that caused the damage that made them have to come to the surface. I would likely be Summarily executed if my team was not available to capture the enemy sub.

We had to do a controlled ascent, we couldn’t do one where you see on TV or movies where the sub flies out of the water. Now that would not be a good thing, due to the damage I’ve caused, there is very little speed that the boat could muster. Not enough to do Anything like that kind of stunt.

“So where are you going sailor?” a deep voice came behind me.

I turned and it was the XO, “I’m going to my communication station.”

He asked where I was when the sabotage happened and I told him I didn’t know about any sabotage but I had just been coming from my bunk room. I told him that when I heard the siren saying we’re making an…

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Ian Worrall
Ian Worrall

Written by Ian Worrall

Ian Worrall is a fiction author. Check YouTube @Thegrayhairedwriter, ianworrallauthor.com/free-gift, and a certified meditation instructor from Aura Wellness.

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