Charli Mills sounded the historical depths of her Superior lake and discovered a mysterious and spooky tale , though what caught her was the idea of those “unremembered”. Who are they? What’s their story? The prompt led me to write from the Hudson’s point of view, to suggest an answer to the question of why the ship sank and why it rises once a year. I hope this prompts you to click over to Carrot Ranch to read the collection of 99 word stories that surfaced from Charli’s September 26 Flash Fiction Challenge.
Scorned
I just stopped. Our arguing raged like the gale winds that pummeled us broadside. How could he? How could he have a fiancé waiting in port? I refused to move unless he forswore that woman. For hadn’t he already chosen a life on the waters? Wasn’t he wed to me?
He had his engineers doing all they could but I refused to respond, for his desperation was to make it to land- to her. No. Let her be unremembered.
High rolling waves consummated our vows. Now every September we celebrate our anniversary. He and I will never be forgotten.
This is a unique approach. A great piece.
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Thanks Robbie. Loose lips sink ships?
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Yes, it is clever.
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Forever wed in Lake Superior’s ice water mansion!
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They get out and about every September. So they say.
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One man and his ship. Like the approach.
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Unfortunately there was a hapless crew that also went down with the ship. You should read Charli’s post, pretty intriguing tale.
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I did realise that cos you said of his engineer.
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Of course. Sorry.
That one man the captain must always feel horrible guilt when he cannot save his crew. The post said that reports said the ship’s master was “wedded to his ship” and I had to wonder at that expression and the circumstances of the sinking.
The whole lot of them are rumored to rise from the depths and make an apparitional appearance on the anniversary of the sinking.
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Of course, anyone living beside navigable water has various such stories. We have Roman galleys that plough across Breydon Water … at Halloween.
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Yikes. Have you seen such?
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Sometimes inanimate objects are not as passive as we like to think. (K)
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Some are said to be imbued…
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How dare he be betrothed to a landlubber? Great take, D. I like the voice you used for this one. Original.
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Who better to tell aboat this than the ship?
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