Emily Grice

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“The Ghost of Windrush” by Emily Grice

Submitted to Contest #218

The clanking and groans of the ship cutting through the grey North Sea provided the beat to a woman’s melodic humming as she soothed her child. Her fingers trace the rounded cheek of a little girl, whose head lolloped in sleep and whose nose made soft snores. A boy who could be fourteen or fifteen, watched the woman tilt her face to capture the spray of seawater, which found its way through cracks in the porthole. Perhaps the woman he watched remembered her faraway sunny home, as her mouth curled up. The salty taste of the sea, mixed with th...

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