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Write about a pirate captain obsessed with finding a mythical treasure.

Posted in Adventure on May 8, 2021

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Glass Ceiling

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I stare at my crew.Of course, they whisper. My life is full of their endless whispers; it’s a goddamn constant presence on this ship. I roll my eyes.“Smithson.”“Yes, Captain?”“Please relate to my crew that if I find them discussing the matter of my sex again, I will personally rip their balls from their bodies, freeze them, and use them as ice cubes to chill my next bottle of rum. Got it?”Smithson grins. He’s always been one to stand by my side. A good lad, of course.One of the only good ones. I scowl as I watch him skip away to chat wi...

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Everything

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The air, when we dropped anchor, was the kind that froze your bones in place if you stood still too long. I never loved these climates in my younger years; the tropics were the place for me, warm breezes in my hair, sun glinting off my sword’s blade when it found another bloody mark. But recently I’d come to like the cold quiet of the north. It made me feel something akin to peace, at moments. A rare thing for me.“You’re sure this is the place, captain?” said Lucy.I surveyed the view in front of me. A meager hunk of rock, no larger than our ...

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For him🌊

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"Cap.." I sigh. He’s doing it again.  He glances from his map. “Yes, Nami?” “You know it’s not real, right?” I say, leaning on the doorframe of his room. He frowns. “It is. I know it is.” “It could be something else.” I point out.  He shakes his head and turns back to the map. His long, curly black hair is falling out of it’s bun, and into his green eyes. I have brown hair I put in a short ponytail.   I sigh, shut the door, and go stand beside him.  Cap, or Captain, has been my best friend for years. He’s called Capt...

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Outliving the Constellations

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New MoonTaran taught me to interpret the stars when I was only five. He tickled my elbows and matched my fingers to the loose stitches of the sky like puzzle pieces. I laughed when he traced Ursa Major, the wingless creature following his hand in circles. He even let me swing from his limbs like a twisting vine and dig my heels into his angled shoulder blades. I got the best view and covered his cratered eyes, pretending we weren’t parentless. He is not my brother—we are not related—but he holds my hand until I fall asleep. It’s no...

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What you give comes back to you

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Title: What you give comes back to youBy: HaripriyaAuthors Note: Hello everyone! I hope you are having a good day! So, in this story, you might find a lot of words/phrases that may seem weird or doesn't make sense... but those words/phrases are pirate lingo. I tried to make it sound like an actual pirate is talking, to make the story a bit more engaging and fun for the readers. Again, thank you for checking out my story and I hope you have a blast reading it!"Ahoy, Me Hearties! Avast Ye! Blimey! For I see... something golden and shiny, waiti...

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Treasure Hunter Hunted

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07/08/409323:37--We found it splack-bang in the middle of an asteroid cluster, suspended in the blackness like the corpse of a whale. I’ll admit, the hairs on the back of my head froze into quills when it drifted into view—it’s gotta be at least a thousand times bigger than our Wildcat, which Morena carefully maneuvered between chunks of floating debris as she scoured the star base for a breach.I got a good look at the name plastered on the rusted metal—Valhalla—each gigantic letter crystal-clear despite years of erosion and corrosion. If I ...

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Not a Princess, But a Pirate

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Not a Princess, but a PirateHer mother used to say girls couldn’t become pirates. She would say, “Arcelia, being a pirate means sailing across the sea, being dirty and following orders from men. You don’t want to live like that. Perhaps try being a princess, their lives are much more elegant.” To that, Arcelia used to stand up on a chair and shout that she was a pirate, just to annoy her mother. Her mother shouldn’t have named her Arcelia, which translated to ‘treasure chest’ the most related thing to a pirate. But now… everything had change...

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The Edelweiss Pirates

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You’ve heard, I’m sure, of the Hitler Youth: young men (not quite of age to truly join the fight) that were indoctrinated into Nazism. Young women found an equal path through the League of German Girls.Just smaller Nazis, honestly.Father raved on and on about the Youth from the moment I turned ten years old. Oh, the unwavering pride he held for the Nazi Party and their great leader. The way he smiled when he talked about his son joining a militaristic group of innocent children….I kept my mouth shut, but my mind never stopped screaming. To l...

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The Copia of Cannam

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The Northern Ocean was dead calm on the day that Captain Sice Halland and his crew sailed in search of the fabled Copia of Cannam. The clouds on the horizon, only just risen into sight, softly framed the vast expanse of dark sky above them. Thousands of distant stars could be counted and a faint Seren, the smallest moon, was barely perceptible, showing only a thin sliver and concealing her remainder in darkness. The bow of the Fox cut through the calm dark water's surface with a surgical precision. There was a constant, resonant hiss as its ...

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Rough Seas

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"I'm thinking, that this island here.." "No, no, ye slimy bitch, this is the thir' island ye'v led us to! D'you know w'ere it is or not?" "Excuse me, you savage moron, but I don't see pointing us anywhere unless the lost gold is at the bottom of a rum bottle!" "Shaddup, the captain knows I be an 'onest man, unlike you, blasted witch." Captain Dreyfus rolled his eyes, inhaling the spray of the sea, and running his hands over the rough wood of the Siren. Under him, the ship rocked ever so slightly, buffeted by gentle breezes, its might...

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The Treasure Beneath Infinite Skies

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  I Pirate Supreme Ali Khursheed stood unmoved relative to his fluttering vessel. Like a feather with battered barbs, the travel-worn pirate ship drifted through the blue water currents. Up ahead loomed a hitherto fabled, but now quite real, treasure-laden island which the ship’s crew had longed to behold for many years. The erratically shaped land, dotted with palm trees and massive boulders, etched into the soft and soothing sky-mirroring water, was going to be the conclusion of Pirate Supreme Ali Khursheed’s long quest for the “fairy...

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The Diamonds of Saba Island

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The angry crew is gathering outside my cabin door. I hear the bosun’s powerful voice subdue the furious mob. He’s been appointed to deliver their ruling. “You’ve drawn the short straw, lad!” he says. “You’ll be leaving with the captain in five minutes.” The satiated crew retreats down the corridor, leaving me in peace to pack my belongings. I scramble down the cargo netting and join Captain Trimble and his two officers in the long boat. They’re waiting for me amongst an untidy collection of their boxes and personal effects. Old Trimble lif...

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Escape Hearts and Breaking Rooms

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“I think we should break up,” Violet said to Dave, ending the quiet back and forth bantering they found themselves in. Her words surprised her as much as they did Dave. The room fell silent, aside from the soft four-note melody that played on hidden speakers. Not a soul dared to make a sound. No one moved. Time passed unnoticed. “Welp, good luck ye mateys!” the host of the escape room said as he slipped out of the room, closed the door, and locked it in place; starting the countdown to sunrise. Violet and Dave, Elliot and Tom,...

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The Devil You Know

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Gulls circled above Tidefail harbor. Captain Alarick Cortez walked through the weak market of the dying seaport with his head held down beneath his cap. The most prominent sale was seafood. Often raw with pearly lifeless eyes, the smell of their peeling scales could waft for miles in the summer. Alarick was familiar with the fins and claws, sometimes even tentacles. So many foreign and wild things having their corpses traded off for silver and bronze.Alarick left the crowded streets behind, walking along the stained and uneven cobble pathway...

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Fishy Fables

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I was so close, I could almost smell it. The sea breeze nudged our boat in a slow, steady path as we searched the clear waters of the Caribbean. Suddenly, I saw a faint glimmer in the deepest of waters.“There! I see it! Lay the anchor!”My crew scrambled as they prepared to take a deep-sea treasure dive. I doubt they were as excited as me, though. I, Captain Coyle Cutthroat, have finally found the treasure most pirates dream of. No one has been said to lay their hands on it and survive. Yet.I was going to be the first, and this treasure must ...

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