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* {{Badass}}: The Sea Monster's very first act in the book is to kill a trained soldier. While tied to a chair. With only one forearm free. Also, he was so badly injured at the time that he couldn't make it out of the building on his own even once he was untied.
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* BadassLonghair: The Sea Monster has long, black hair, and his very first act in the book is to kill a trained soldier. While tied to a chair. With only one forearm free. Also, he was so badly injured at the time that he couldn't make it out of the building on his own even once he was untied.
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* BadassLonghair: {{Badass}}: The Sea Monster has long, black hair, and his Monster's very first act in the book is to kill a trained soldier. While tied to a chair. With only one forearm free. Also, he was so badly injured at the time that he couldn't make it out of the building on his own even once he was untied.
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A novella just over 30,000 words long, "Beachwalker" follows the struggles of a cast of nameless characters as they work to survive in a war-torn and earthquake-rattled country. Deliberately ambiguous and surreal, the novella focuses mostly on the inner struggles of the protagonist as she fights for her patient's life, though external, physical danger is never far away.
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A novella just over 30,000 words long, "Beachwalker" ''Beachwalker'' follows the struggles of a cast of nameless characters as they work to survive in a war-torn and earthquake-rattled country. Deliberately ambiguous and surreal, the novella focuses mostly on the inner struggles of the protagonist as she fights for her patient's life, though external, physical danger is never far away.
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* BatmanInMyBasement: The central premise of the story.
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* BeneathTheMask: The Beachwalker has a slightly softer core than she thought.
* ComfortingComforter: Since ThereIsOnlyOneBed, the Beachwalker decides to sleep on the floor so her bedridden patient won't have to. This works until it gets too cold and he decides that she should have the blanket. And he won't take no for an answer. [[SleepCute They work it out.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: The Beachwalker, while generally gentle with those around her, is very careful to keep them at arms' length. She does not need anyone to give her emotional support, to be there for her, or to comfort her in any way. Until she [[spoiler: gets shot]] and [[NotSoStoic finds out she does.]]
* ComfortingComforter: Since ThereIsOnlyOneBed, the Beachwalker decides to sleep on the floor so her bedridden patient won't have to. This works until it gets too cold and he decides that she should have the blanket. And he won't take no for an answer. [[SleepCute They work it out.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: The Beachwalker, while generally gentle with those around her, is very careful to keep them at arms' length. She does not need anyone to give her emotional support, to be there for her, or to comfort her in any way. Until she [[spoiler: gets shot]] and [[NotSoStoic finds out she does.]]
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* GoodSamaritan: Basically the Beachwalker's reason to live, and the primary source of her identity. The self-given title of "Beachwalker" refers to the star of a story in which a man finds a beach full of stranded starfish and starts throwing them into the sea.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: The soldiers treated Sea monster/Starfish horribly, but they also help the Beachwalker and the Shopkeeper to set their shop back in order after the earthquake, and their medic is shown to have objected to their harsh interrogation methods. On the rebels' side, the Starfish himself does his best to look out for the Beachwalker despite his wounded state, and [[spoiler: after he dies, one of his comrades temporarily reconciles with the aforementioned medic to help bury him.]] All in all, the story avoids lionizing or demonizing either side of the conflict.
* HeroicBSOD: The [[spoiler: Starfish's death]], combined with [[spoiler: her own bullet wound and resulting illness]], leave [[spoiler: the Beachwalker]] barely functional by the end of the book.
* HeroicFatigue: The Beachwalker's tendency to give unreservedly and refuse to receive anything in return begins to catch up with her partway through the book, especially after [[spoiler: she's shot]].
* InnocentCohabitation: While she has her initial doubts about the Starfish's intentions when he protests against her [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed sleeping on the floor]], there turns out to be little or no sexual tension despite the situation.
* MyGreatestFailure: At some point in the backstory, [[spoiler: the Beachwalker's first patient, her mother, died despite her best efforts]], and she's determined not to let it happen again.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: The soldiers treated Sea monster/Starfish horribly, but they also help the Beachwalker and the Shopkeeper to set their shop back in order after the earthquake, and their medic is shown to have objected to their harsh interrogation methods. On the rebels' side, the Starfish himself does his best to look out for the Beachwalker despite his wounded state, and [[spoiler: after he dies, one of his comrades temporarily reconciles with the aforementioned medic to help bury him.]] All in all, the story avoids lionizing or demonizing either side of the conflict.
* HeroicBSOD: The [[spoiler: Starfish's death]], combined with [[spoiler: her own bullet wound and resulting illness]], leave [[spoiler: the Beachwalker]] barely functional by the end of the book.
* HeroicFatigue: The Beachwalker's tendency to give unreservedly and refuse to receive anything in return begins to catch up with her partway through the book, especially after [[spoiler: she's shot]].
* InnocentCohabitation: While she has her initial doubts about the Starfish's intentions when he protests against her [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed sleeping on the floor]], there turns out to be little or no sexual tension despite the situation.
* MyGreatestFailure: At some point in the backstory, [[spoiler: the Beachwalker's first patient, her mother, died despite her best efforts]], and she's determined not to let it happen again.
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* NotSoStoic: After [[spoiler: she gets shot]], the Beachwalker's stoicism starts to fray badly.
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* SamaritanSyndrome: The Beachwalker’s modus operandi.
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* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: The Beachwalker and her Starfish.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: The Beachwalker and her Starfish.]]
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"[[http://www.amazon.com/Beachwalker-ebook/dp/B007A8O79K Beachwalker]]" is Stephanie O'Brien's first published work, having been made available on Amazon's Kindle in 2012.
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* BadassInDistress: The Sea Monster/Starfish starts the book tied to a chair, half-starved, horribly injured, and with a freshly killed opponent at his feet. [[spoiler:He only gets more distressed from there.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Beachwalker and her Starfish both die.]]
* BadassLonghair: The Sea Monster has long, black hair, and his very first act in the book is to kill a trained soldier. While tied to a chair. With only one forearm free. Also, he was so badly injured at the time that he couldn't make it out of the building on his own even once he was untied.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Beachwalker and her Starfish both die.]]
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* TheSpeechless: [[spoiler: Sea Monster/Starfish turns out to be completely mute.]]
* UrbanWarfare: The Beachwalker has to dodge this several times. [[spoiler:And then fails to dodge it once.]]
* UrbanWarfare: The Beachwalker has to dodge this several times. [[spoiler:And then fails to dodge it once.]]
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"My mother told me a story once. A story about a wave that washed up all the starfish and left them on the shore, in a place where starfish can’t survive."
She crept through the building on wary, silent feet. The earthquake had moved like a wave through the earth, leaving people stranded like starfish in its wake. The firefight that drove her inside had fallen deathly still, but she knew that she wasn't alone.
Two soldiers. One prisoner. Two dead, one dying, with fresh blood on his hands.
The only one she could even try to save.
"My mother told me a story once. A story about a man who found a beach full of starfish, washed up by the sea.
She crept through the building on wary, silent feet. The earthquake had moved like a wave through the earth, leaving people stranded like starfish in its wake. The firefight that drove her inside had fallen deathly still, but she knew that she wasn't alone.
Two soldiers. One prisoner. Two dead, one dying, with fresh blood on his hands.
The only one she could even try to save.
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** PromotionToParent: Part of the reason why the Beachwalker is so driven to take care of those who have no one else is because her father abandoned her at a young age, leaving her to take care of everything while her mother drank herself into oblivion.
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A novella just over 30,000 words long, "Beachwalker" follows the struggles of a cast of nameless characters as they work to survive in a war-torn and earthquake-rattled country. Deliberately ambiguous and surreal, the novella focuses mostly on the inner struggles of the protagonist as she fights for her patient's life, though external, physical danger is never far away.
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A novella just over 30,000 words long, "Beachwalker" follows the struggles of a cast of nameless characters as they work to survive in a war-torn and earthquake-rattled country. Deliberately ambiguous and surreal, the novella focuses mostly on the inner struggles of the protagonist as she fights for her patient's life, though external, physical danger is never far away.away.
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** "PromotionToParent": Part of the reason why the Beachwalker is so driven to take care of those who have no one else is because her father abandoned her at a young age, leaving her to take care of everything while her mother drank herself into oblivion.
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** "AllFirstPersonNarratorsWriteLikeNovelists"
** "NamelessNarrative": All of the characters are referred to by their roles or their relationship to the protagonist. "My mother", "The shopkeeper", "The sea monster", "My starfish", etc. Several of these titles refer to her favorite childhood story.
** "PromotionToParent": Part of the reason why the Beachwalker is so driven to take care of those who have no one else is because her father abandoned her at a young age, leaving her to take care of everything while her mother drank herself into oblivion.
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"My mother told me a story once. A story about a wave that washed up all the starfish and left them on the shore, in a place where starfish can’t survive."
She crept through the building on wary, silent feet. The earthquake had moved like a wave through the earth, leaving people stranded like starfish in its wake. The firefight that drove her inside had fallen deathly still, but she knew that she wasn't alone.
Two soldiers. One prisoner. Two dead, one dying, with fresh blood on his hands.
The only one she could even try to save.
"My mother told me a story once. A story about a man who found a beach full of starfish, washed up by the sea.
She never told me what he’d do if one of those starfish was a shark."
--From the official product page
A novella just over 30,000 words long, "Beachwalker" follows the struggles of a cast of nameless characters as they work to survive in a war-torn and earthquake-rattled country. Deliberately ambiguous and surreal, the novella focuses mostly on the inner struggles of the protagonist as she fights for her patient's life, though external, physical danger is never far away.
She crept through the building on wary, silent feet. The earthquake had moved like a wave through the earth, leaving people stranded like starfish in its wake. The firefight that drove her inside had fallen deathly still, but she knew that she wasn't alone.
Two soldiers. One prisoner. Two dead, one dying, with fresh blood on his hands.
The only one she could even try to save.
"My mother told me a story once. A story about a man who found a beach full of starfish, washed up by the sea.
She never told me what he’d do if one of those starfish was a shark."
--From the official product page
A novella just over 30,000 words long, "Beachwalker" follows the struggles of a cast of nameless characters as they work to survive in a war-torn and earthquake-rattled country. Deliberately ambiguous and surreal, the novella focuses mostly on the inner struggles of the protagonist as she fights for her patient's life, though external, physical danger is never far away.