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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 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 Oct 19th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 013 – Forward to Part 015 Five years earlier “You know,” Logan said, wiping the sweat from her brow, “this would make an excellent Relay program.” “How’s that?” Cait rubbed grease off her hands with a towel. She stood, and joined Logan in the middle of the cargo [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Oct 13th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 12 – Forward to Part 14 Notes For those of you keeping track at home, we just got to the end of day six. Toby has tried to escape once, been in handcuffs twice, and has been in two different countries, neither of which were his own. Nina [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Oct 12th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 012 – Forward to Part 014 Cait sent for Toby to be awakened just after the sunrise. After he had tried to run, Cait thought it best to keep him with her. Toby was delivered to Cait at breakfast in the manor’s dinning hall. She was in the [...]
Posted in Boat Story, Uncategorized, fiction, writing on Oct 5th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 11 – Forward to Part 013 When Toby was sure no one was looking, he ran. It was the money’s fault. That morning, Cait gave him an envelope full of crisp COS Leagues, six hundred, she informed him, his payment for three days of work. Toby did the [...]
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 [...]
