Casey Fleming

Months after a deadly outbreak, an disparate crew of five fights for survival aboard a powerboat off the coast of Vancouver Island. As resources run low and supplies break down, tensions come to a head when a sudden engine failure necessitates their first journey back to shore.

Spanning the past and present, Sea Drift centers the persistence of hope, art, and fought-for community amid dire environmental and personal circumstance. To save each other, the characters of Sea Drift must first overcome themselves.

In 1720, two of the only women ever convicted of piracy--Anne Bonny and Mary Read--were captured and tried. After sentencing, Mary died of a fever in prison. Anne Bonny vanished from history. No execution, no death record: nothing. What is believed about their lives now is almost entirely conjecture, and unprovable if you dig deep enough.

Inspired by fact and woven together by fiction, HELLCATS imagines Anne and Mary's meeting, unexpected love, and inevitable loss of one another. In the absence of truth, would it be so bad to pretend?