A Pirate's Bounty
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Banks and his cellmates are removed from Newgate prison and placed aboard a ship bound for the Indies, where they will become slaves on the sugar plantations. Deciding to mutiny and take the ship as their own, their plans are soon interrupted when real pirates board their ship. Banks and his mates are set off on a lonely island with a small supply of food. While keeping lookout for a passing ship and praying for rescue, they do their best to survive when their stores are exhausted. A graphic short story.
Karen C. Webb
Karen Webb lives in New Mexico and has traveled all over the country. She is an avid reader of fiction and enjoys writing it as well, setting her stories in locations she has visited. She writes as time allows, carrying a laptop with her and writing when she can. "I have more ideas for novels than I have time to write," says Karen. She also enjoys gardening, horseback riding and hiking through the mountains, searching for buried treasure with a metal detector.
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A Pirate's Bounty - Karen C. Webb
A Pirate's Bounty
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Note from the author:
This story was in no way meant to be a mockery of Victorian Literature. Just the opposite, in fact. It was inspired by the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, Frost and Dickens. It was a writing exercise I gave myself. Could I possibly write like that? Using so little words, yet creating such stunning mental imagery? I have always been envious of Frost's ability to write one paragraph and create an entire story. I wanted to try it, to write a story from a pirate's eyes. Told in the way he might have spoken, using language that was used back then. I doubt I came close, since I'm neither male nor British. Hell, I'm not even a pirate. But, it was fun to write, and hopefully will be a good read. Not for the squeamish or younger reader. It gets a little grisly and graphic.
Chapter 1
I was languishing within the sturdy walls of Newgate when Captain Seward arrived with several of his crew. I, along with several of my cellmates, were removed from the prison and placed aboard the good ship, Diligence.
I knew not what fate awaited me, and on what distant shores we were bound, but I had been facing the gallows for sure, had I remained at Newgate.
The captain was a great brute of a man, Cap'n Seward, his shipmates pronounced him, with a smart seaman's salute.
The four of us were placed in the ship's hold and the hatches battened down, leastways until the ship was put to sea, whereas a crewmate opened the hatch and bid us come topside.
We were bade to stand in line, and Cap'n Seward walked the breadth of us, assigning duties to each. At his behest, I was assigned to the galley, at which chore I excelled.
The seven of ye will become slaves to the government on the island of Saint Lucia,
Cap'n Seward said.
And there it lay, my fate decided.
It wasn't in me to contradict the captain. Slave on Saint Lucia island, or swing from the gallows of London, my fate had been sealed from the second I slay the man who'd stolen my wife.
I went about my duties, escape never too far from my conscious thought. But, of course, the only escape lay in the deep blue waters themselves, so I bided my time, performing my duties as cooks assistant without complaint nor hindrance.
It was late into a star-filled night, a northwesterly breeze filling our canvas, and a lulling hum of waves caressing the ships bows, when I came topside to find my cellmates huddled together by the gunwales, whispering. The ship rocked gently against the swells, and as I had yet to find my sea legs, I made my way slowly to where they stood about.
There he is,
says Hawkes, a scraggly ruffian of unknown origins. There's our man Banks.
I shook hands all round, then stepped back in astonishment as I came to know the incidentals of their talk. And what might you suggest it to be? Why mutiny, of course! A cumbersome plan, by all accounts, and certainly one fraught with peril.
Three days hence,
says Dan, of whom a last name I never came to know, we steals the weapons and we takes the ship.
And then what?
asks I.
Why gold, man, what else?
this from Charles Gardener, a gentleman I'd come to know somewhat at Newgate.
Then we are to become pirates?
Corsairs of the high seas,
says Dan, excitedly now.
I was none too fond of the idea, although I was likewise disagreeable to