Set your story on a sailboat, large or small, and entirely at the mercy of the winds.

Posted in Adventure on Mar 1, 2024

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“I am a boat.” by Robin-Clementine Herold

Submitted to Contest #240

I am a boat. I am sailing. I am small. I am gone, floating away. The sea is my mother, the wind my father, the waves my sisters and brothers. I am a boat. I am sailing. I am small. I am gone. My father seems angry. He’s rustling and bustling and hustling, making my brothers rustle and bustle and hustle too. My sisters stay calm. My mother accepts all my father gives to her, calm, angry, whatever he gives she takes. I like to think it’s so he doesn't affect me or my siblings, but nothing could stop my father for he is angry. And I’m thr...

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“Liberty's Fortune” by J.B. Redel

Submitted to Contest #240

Striding into his quarters, Morgan paused just before passing the threshold. Elena stood across the small space, her figure illuminated by the swaying lantern hanging from the low ceiling. She leaned over the top of his small wooden desk, fists supporting her weight on either side of an old piece of parchment sprawled across the desk's surface and held in place by rocks of varying sizes. Her features were obscured by her long black curls, which had slid over her shoulders and nearly brushed the surface of his desk. Though he couldn’t see her...

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