Stories tagged “sail”
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red sky in the morning
I woke up in a rowboat with a makeshift sail stitched of gray uniform fabric. The sky had a hazy strawberries and cream complexion that reminded me it was almost morning. I tried to remember what sailors said about rose colored skies, but the saying el...
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Eyeing the Gap
I eyed the ship, both of us baked by the Caribbean sun. She lay almost upright, just a slight tilt to starboard there on the sand, almost akin to a tilting of the head that says, “Come on then, let’s make a go of it.” The hole had lon...