Susan Roth

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“Dreadnought ” by Susan Roth

Submitted to Contest #160

The high-pitched whistle would wake anyone, to be fair, especially someone who normally boils water in an electric kettle. I’d been dreaming of a factory whistle and lines of workers streaming out of a dismal Northern foundry at quitting time. Like a Lowry painting.It took me a few seconds to remember where I was. Then it came into focus: I was wrapped in a damp sleeping bag on a narrow bunk in the musty bow of the ambitiously-named Dreadnought, a 25-foot sailboat. My rucksack lay on the opposite bunk – open but unpacked....

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