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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 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. [...]
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, fiction, writing on Aug 25th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 005 Notes – Forward to Part 007 Notes As we talked about last week, the Firebrand is a camp that positions itself to be a rehabilitation camp, a camp for kids who are about to lose their lives to drugs or the streets or both. Worried parents send [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Aug 24th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 005 – Forward to Part 007 Cait summoned Toby at the first bell after sunrise, and started to detail his duties on the Rose. After a moment, Cait slowed her speech to a stop, noticing how Toby could barely keep his eyes open, how he swayed just a [...]
Posted in Boat Story, fiction, writing on Aug 17th, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 004 – Forward to Part 006 “Are we kidnapping now?” Billy stood in the door to Cait’s office, his face red, his arms down at his side. He fixed his eyes hard on Cait, as if he could see the answer already. Cait set down her paper work. [...]
Posted in Boat Story, Uncategorized, fiction, writing on Aug 3rd, 2009
New reader? Start here. Back to Part 002 – Forward to Part 004 Cait boarded the bridge just after the Rose pulled out of the harbor. Their perpetual Travelers were settling in, Tre doling out their responsibilities, while Billy prepared dinner for the crew. Typically, Travelers preferred to cook their own food, though Tami and [...]
