From "The Deep": Fiction --- Anthony Doerr | Numéro Cinq
. Herewith, an excerpt from Anthony Doerr’s award-winning short story, “The Deep.” Recipient of the prestigious Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award in 2011, “The Deep” is included in the paperback edition of Doerr’s 2010 Story Prize winning collection Memory Wall. Born with a heart defect in the early days of last century, Tom is told he will not live past the
