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Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Dec 29th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 022 Notes – Forward to Part 024 Notes Those poor Travelers. They leave the Rose in a fury, only to end up not where they expected. With a storm imminent, they climb on to the first passing boat. This is part of maritime conduct, both on Ta Ante, [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Dec 28th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 022 – Forward to Part 024 Tami and Patel were on the wrong boat. They dove into the ocean at night, carrying only the map and a stolen life raft. When the Rose was far enough away, they activated an emergency beacon, and waited. Some time later, just [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Dec 22nd, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 021 Notes – Forward to Part 023 Notes No speeches, but tradition. Lots of tradition. Which is what a 500 year old family would have for these situations. Pipers and carrying the casket, and the great boat journey home all are the culmination of Molyneux funerals before. Nina, [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Dec 21st, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 021 – Forward to Part 023 The Gimble Molyneux led the funeral procession from Ganda back to Molyneux Island, a fleet of Molyneux and non-Molyneux ships following behind them. When the fleet entered COS waters, the COS coastal patrol met them, and escorted them in, all the way [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Dec 15th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 020 Notes – Forward to Part 022 Notes Man, a lot happens here in just 1000 words. Toby tries to run away again, this time with the endorsement, so to speak, of Cait. Xiphos wants to bring him back, and even defying Cait to do so, and the [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Dec 14th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 020 – Forward to Part 022 Toby took a moment to collect his bearings, referring to the little hand-drawn map a dockhand had made him. The intersection looked right, but he wasn’t sure he was where he needed to be. Looking a little closer, a small metal sign [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Dec 8th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 019 Notes – Forward to Part 021 Notes Back when Cait was on Molyneux Island, Milly had said, “Cait’s family sucks,” and at first I wanted to defend them. But, no, they really suck, and Cait has to put up with them. But, thankfully, for sanity’s sake, she [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Dec 7th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 019 — Forward to Part 021 The Gimble Molyneux was a large, majestic steam Storm Runner from the late 3930s. She could carry 300, and had a crew of 100 to move the ship around and take care of its guests. It shone white on the horizon, and [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Dec 1st, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Act 2 Notes – Forward to Part 020 Notes It’s understandably quiet on the Rose. Everyone has kind of slipped away to do their own thing. For the first time, we get a taste of Cait’s religion. We’ve talked about the Gods, if only in the prologues, but not [...]
