The first paragraph set the scene nicely, but didn’t particularly grab me – it feels a bit laboured, probably because you were keen to get on to writing that humdinger of an ending.

And a humdinger it is – love the piratey quote and some slick, fluid action which moves really well… A review of two halves for me, though it just comes in at a 4 overall – MH :)

Not into priates, but this was rather interesting.

Yeah, I’m not a pirate guy myself, but the narrative here was wonderfully constructed. Well done.

Now, to appease the scifi/fantasy lover in me, make the dead pirates come back to life and terrorize Stockton in the sequel. :)

This was one of those stories where the character limit really annoyed me. I had to edit out a bunch of cool descriptions in order to keep the main plot. I’ve edited the first paragraph some more, and hopefully it flows a little smoother now.