Pleasure Island
Captain William Galewalker ordered his pirates to set anchor offshore. He grasped the rail to steady his wooden leg against the roll and raised a spyglass to his good, left eye. Forever, the right lid wrinkled shut on an eyeless socket. The leg he lost to a shark, the eye in a knife fight, but he’d won both times. He was alive and they weren’t. The ship rode all evening in the grey sea, buffeted by winds, while crew grumbled.
His worried first mate told the captain what he already knew. “Should have never divvied out the gold so soon.” The sailors wanted a port where they could waste their ill-gotten gains, not this lonely stretch of dismal shore.
Blackness descended. The cutthroats slept, leaving the mate fidgety, wondering if his captain had gone mad. The brass buttons on the captain’s overcoat shone from a fresh rubbing. His leather boot gleamed. He’d slicked his long hair back and bound it in a queue. Galewalker surveyed the shore again. High from a cliff, a light pierced the darkness.
The captain turned to his mate. “Lower the cockboat. I’m going ashore.”
“Alone, Cap’n?”
“The lady prefers it that way, yes.”
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Sunday Photo Fiction: 200-word stories
photo prompt: A Mixed Bag
April 2, 2017 at 1:36 pm
Glad to see the Captain can still take a few pleasures.
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April 2, 2017 at 4:29 pm
Thank you for reading, James.
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April 2, 2017 at 3:57 pm
‘cockboat’ is such a loaded word!
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April 2, 2017 at 4:31 pm
Hehe, I’m glad someone noticed! Thanks for reading.
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April 3, 2017 at 4:26 am
I think we all noticed!
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April 3, 2017 at 6:42 am
😀
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April 2, 2017 at 10:33 pm
Aarh!
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April 3, 2017 at 6:42 am
😀
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April 3, 2017 at 6:49 am
Hehe. I haven’t read a pirate story in a while, and it was time to write one. Thanks for the visit, Feathered Friend.
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April 3, 2017 at 4:27 am
I hope for the lady’s sake that all his other bits are still intact.
Fun story, Kecia.
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April 3, 2017 at 6:47 am
Thank you, CE.
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April 3, 2017 at 2:31 pm
Haha Good story, Kecia. And some of these comments gave me a good chuckle as well. 🙂
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April 3, 2017 at 7:40 pm
Hehe. Thanks, Mandie. This was a fun one. Not too organized, but I have a lot of irons in the fire at the moment. I’m trying to write a horror genre short story for a contest and a murder mystery in under 1000 words. How do I write a murder mystery in fewer than 1000 words?! Aaaggghh.
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April 4, 2017 at 8:42 am
What?! Horror?! I want to read that. That’s my favorite genre. 🙂 And now you have me thinking, how do you write a murder mystery in under 1,000 words? Interesting challenge. Hopefully you’ll share these stories after the contests are over. And best of luck! That’s so awesome that you’re taking on these challenges, Kecia! I hope you win.
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April 4, 2017 at 9:01 am
The horror contest is based on a Weird Tales Magazine cover, which is what drew me. I’m a pulp fiction fan, so I’m having fun with it. Thank you.
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April 4, 2017 at 2:03 pm
Oh! That sounds like fun.
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April 3, 2017 at 10:55 pm
Very interesting. Had a big laugh. Cockboat, hih? S
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April 4, 2017 at 9:01 am
I’m glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
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April 9, 2017 at 7:02 am
That made me giggle. Including the bit everyone else noticed as well. Hehe
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April 9, 2017 at 7:41 am
😀 I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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