The Wind_A Captain's Worst Fear_The Iron Door_A New World
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The Wind
Cai opened her dark eyes and stared up at the moonlit ceiling. She had just had a dream. Something about it felt very familiar, like the smell of her grandmother's house, or the feel of summer rain on your face. And yet she couldn’t remember it at all. All that remained was this lingering feeling. She lay there letting the warm feel of familiarity settle around her, trying to gently coax the dream to come back. But dreams are fickle beasts and this one it seemed had tramped away for good.The wind came then and blew her green curtains through her window, they dragged across the bed before billo...
A Captain's Worst Fear
“Aye Captain, there be a storm a com-en.” warned Angus Murphy. “I feel it in me bones.”Captain Marvin Dogbody glanced west towards the prevailing winds. A dark haze was forming on the distant horizon. He looked back at Angus. He trusted his first-mate and his aching bones. They were more accurate than his expensive German barometer. “Have the men reef the topsails, but leave the main and the jibs flying.”“Aye, Captain.”Captain Marvin Dogbody was patrolling the waters between England and France. He was sailing an old three-masted brig. All the newer warships were sent to America to quell thos...
The Iron Door
December 12th, 1692To Father Eusebio Frwww.onedoor.ccancisco Kino:The Cañada del Oro is rightly named, glory be to God. The placer has pointed our direction and we begin our journey up and into the belly of the mountain. The burros complain terribly, but not so loudly as the novitiates. The Papago peoples, of whom our apostolate counts some small number, are silent and strong in their ascent. They are possessed of a God-given sure-footedness that is the envy of burro and novitiate alike. Perhaps they are part bighorn sheep.We have made camp along a ridge that juts some thousands of feet above the great rive...
A New World
Henry and Catherine Martin were a large upper class family with eight children. William was the eldest and then Bessie, Mary, Martha, Peter, Agnes, Beatrice and the youngest Alma. William had gone into the Army, following in Dad’s footsteps, and the eldest girls Bessie, Mary, and Martha enjoyed a busy social life. Bessie had been promised to a prominent young man named John Tully, who was in the family business of Law. The younger children had not yet joined the society party groups as they were too young, but tonight was different. It was New Year’s Eve 1899, and the Martins were holding a la...