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Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Sep 29th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 010 Notes – Forward to Part 012 Notes Sweet crap, is it Tuesday already? Where is my year going? I’ve been thinking about calling all of this time in Anchorhead “Exposition Island,” because that’s what we’re getting a lot of. But this is still the beginning of the [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Sep 28th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 010 – Forward to Part 12 The guards that watched the gates of Buan Chuimhne waved the Dinghy through, giving Tre a brief nod. Cait and Billy rode in back, sitting across from each other in the tiny seating area. Cait let her head rest against the wall [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Sep 22nd, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 009 Notes – Forward to Part 011 Notes I herd u guyz leik maps: Anchorhead in its full, flat color splendor. Just to give you an idea of scale, Molyneux Island is about eight miles across. Also, not marked on the map, the docks are on the west [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Sep 21st, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 009 – Forward to Part 011 Shortly after Toby found himself on the docks at Anchorhead, Toby once more found himself in handcuffs. The customs agent behind him pushed him against the wall of the customs hall, pulling the boy’s arms behind his back and applying the cuffs. [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Sep 15th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 008 Notes – Forward to Part 010 Notes Milly and I were talking last night, and she was upset that we didn’t actually get to see Nina and Xiphos meeting. It’s understandable that she would want to see this, because Nina and Xiphos are both separately neat people, [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Sep 14th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 008 – Forward to Part 010 One and a half years before. Cait Molyneux was the middle child of thirteen brothers and sisters. And though most of the current generation of Molyneux children took to the sea in some form or another, Cait rarely encountered any of them. [...]
This is awesome: The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo. The animation is beautiful, and Nick Cave does an incredible job with the narration. Take a couple of minutes out of your day to watch, why don’t ya? Via io9. (apparently WP doesn’t like to embed videos from Vimeo. Sorry) [g]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Sep 8th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 007 Notes – Forward to Part 009 Notes One of the things I really like about Cait and Xiphos’s relationship is that Cait trusts her tremendously. For six hours every day, the Rose belongs to Xiphos. There’s trust there that Xiphos can handle herself and the Rose, alone, [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Sep 7th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 007 – Forward to Part 009 For six hours every day, The Rose belonged to Xiphos. While the crew slept, during the First and Mid shifts, Xiphos was the only crew member awake, and thus, though no one said it, Xiphos was acting captain. Cait was happy to [...]
Posted in Boat Story, Uncategorized, fiction, writing on Sep 1st, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 006 Notes In which we meet pirates. I hate to do this, but there’s so much to talk about with the pirates that is going to have to wait. We’ll discover a lot more about them later. But for right now, Burian Lake broke a guys arm and [...]
