David Painter

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“The green skif ” by David Painter

Submitted to Contest #103

The green skiff It was only a skiff, just a green skiff  no more than an inland bay runner with a thirty five horse power Evinrude motor  and one too many coats of paint, but it was freedom, it was dads old boat. That had been sitting up since I was fifteen. I had often thought that if I were that boat, I would never feel the salt spray of the sea again. It had been setting on that X frame covered by a kindred green canvas tarp, the kind with brass eyelets and lashed down with cotton rope. So it was that I debated whether to g...

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