Nautical - Stories

All the little shards of life and stories floating in space, all tales the imagination possibly cooked up. Fragments of those that cannot make to its full potential yet still significant in the eyes of the holder. The little bits of happiness and grief, life its self.

Contain Short Stories

Trigger Warning: Cannibalism, Blood, Mental Health Issues: Anxiety, Depression, BPD (Any under this umbrella to be safe. Will be updated)

1843. In a Polynesian paradise, something haunts Redburn. His dreams blend with the waking world, and he is driven to find himself while he seeks the lost love of his life.

1843. No lost soul is born into the world, but the world makes it so. Redburn must find Toby, nothing else matters, and on three ships of contrasts - well-governed, and hopeless - he thinks of only getting to land and looking for the man he loves.

1845. In the spring Redburn leaves Peru for New York on a warship. He has nothing, and feels like a failure. Worst of all is the loss he leaves behind him in the Pacific – his husband is dead, and Toby is lost and presumably long buried. What awaits him in the fall when he arrives back 'home,' to a place he has not been for four years? There he must consider what his brother wants for him, against how Redburn might honor the noblest sacrifices of the men who love him have made.

Fictional story exploring the inscription inside the cover of a book of poems published in 1929.

The South Pacific, 1842. These are powder-keg times, and in the midst of French Imperial gun boat diplomacy, Redburn has had enough of the sea. He draws a reluctant Toby into an adventure, and in the process loses something more valuable to him than his own life.

It is the summer of 1839. A 19-year-old boy sets out to be a man. He chooses the sea, or it chooses him, because it is a place where men who love as he does can escape society's pronouncements upon them. The boy unknowingly begins a classic hero's journey of self-discovery – travels 'there,' discovers his task is a deeply personal one, then returns 'home' to find home is not where he wants to be anymore.

This is the continuing story of the Hamilton Family and their friends and crew, as they come across a few challenges and a new life in a different part of Australia.

The continuing story of Alexander Huon Devonport

This is the continued story of the Lloyd Family Corporation.

Recommend that the first story - Aquaria, be read first.

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I’m always looking to improve with new stories… Regards Q