A half-drowned stranger suffering from exposure and speaking a foreign tongue is brought to shore in an isolated fishing city at the height of the Cold War and mistaken for a Russian spy. Meanwhile, his girl mourns for him.
I received a joke by e-mail today and it hit me that there was a short story in that humor. I had to sit right down and polish off this story in order to get back on one of my other stories I was in the middle or writing.