"This Joyousness and dispersion of thought before a task of some importance seems to prove that this world of ours is not such a serious affair after all." -Joseph conrad

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Far South Coast (ch. 7)


The cold gray January sky dominated R/V Forward. Just one day off the coast, the ship was cold and the crew anxious.


“Did you hear we are only stopping for a few hours in home port?” she asked.


“I can’t believe this, why would they be sending us down off the far south coast? We need to be back where we came from!” Francis seconded angrily.


“There’s something they aren’t telling us, there’s something we need to know,” said John.


The ship lay asleep that morning, while those three wrestled with their reality out among the white capped swells. 

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