This is the year of the big hatch for them.
What lay in wait on the other side of the hatch?
"Do they carry on across the outside of the hatch?"
There was no way to reach the safety of the hatch.
He reached out the top of the hatch and pulled it closed.
He held on to the side of the hatch, reaching down.
It came through the boards of the door and the hatch.
The lower part of the hatch can be opened to create a 'counter'.
There was a violent impact, dead on the center of the hatch.
Light was reflecting off the inside surface of the open hatch.