Oak the Orca wonders about weight, water, and why our bodies feel different beneath the surface.
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Underwater, "Oak" the Orca's weight means almost nothing. On land, it means everything. Oak wants to know why.
Gravity pulls. Water lifts. But Oak’s story is also tied to a girl who grew up watching him from the shores of Patagonia—and carried the memory of him into adulthood.
Their relationship brings together gravity, buoyancy, the human spine, and the ways water changes what our bodies must carry.
A chemist curious about how the physical world behaves. Recurring neck pain and family members' spinal struggles made spinal health personal. Swimming, sailing, and scuba diving led him to think hard about gravity and buoyancy.
Joe is a spine and pain specialist with a major medical network in the Los Angeles area, where he specializes in managing and treating patients with neck, back and joint pains. He also has personal experience with spine and joint pain from previous athletic injuries. He has developed a routine to manage his condition and wishes to disseminate what he has learned through the years from patient care and his own experiences to help more people understand, prevent, and manage spine and joint pains.
The Buoyancy Books platform will let readers create spinoff stories using a proprietary AI toolkit — extending Oak's world with your own.
Featured contributors may earn acknowledgements, prizes, and potentially financial bonuses for the stories that rise to the surface.
This brings the reader into the story like never before. Come build Buoyancy Books with us.
Sign Up for the First Book in the SeriesGlimpses into a growing universe — each one drifting up from deep water.
Kirin becomes obsessed with building a mountain of possessions, sweets, screens, and temptations — a story about wanting, excess, and knowing when enough is enough.
Oak notices his mother forgetting names and routes, and learns to say, "I can tell you again," instead of, "You already asked me." Introducing patience, dignity, and love.
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We'll see you beneath the surface.