Nautical Stories

When Mistmorrow's sacred birds fail to return to their temple aviaries, Niam Yarrow, a Academy-trained druid, and Lylia Vesh, a magic-wielding priestess are thrust together in a desperate attempt to save their island. However, when beasts attack, and wyverns darken the skies, the only way to survive is to leave their beloved home.

[Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past. ****** On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins her friends for a traditional jump into the city pool to celebrate the beginning of summer and the last year they plan to spend in Palmer, Michigan; a dead-end riverside town with an eerily abandoned historic main street and decaying Victorian mansions. But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears. When Pete Harrison, an unfamiliar face who seems somewhat familiar with hers, offers a dizzy and confused Vanessa a towel and a ride home, she discovers her house and family missing. She has somehow slipped into 1953, the year her grandparents graduated high school. Using the pool and vivid imaginings of her grandfather's memories, Vanessa continues to escape to 1953- and to Pete, who, despite his unaffected kindness and optimism, has a mysterious bad reputation around town. But as she dives deeper into the summer her grandparents fell in love, she finds herself unable to return to the present without venturing even further into the past to correct a mistake that threatens her family and future. *Content Warning: this story contains scenes of near drowning and other perils on the sea, swearing, smoking and alcohol use* This story is complete at ~90,000 words. Wattys Winner 2022- Catchiest Hook and Wild Card Shortlisted Wattys 2021 Featured on @WattpadTimeTravel Featured on @WattpadHistoricalRomance Featured on @TeenFiction Editor's choice list, December 2022, May 2023 Cover by @eva3382

Captain Jonathon Harding dreams of untold riches and eternal glory when he sets sail in search of The Spectre, a legendary ghost ship shrouded in mystery. But uncharted waters hold dangers far beyond his crew's worst fears-mythical beasts, treacherous storms, and the sinister pull of an ancient curse. As ambition drives Jonathon deeper into peril, he must confront the cost of his quest and decide how much he's willing to sacrifice to claim his prize.

A young girl is kept captive on a fishing ship. Danger lies above and below the waves.

Most well mannered fish moved to deeper water where they didn't have to worry about low tide. Only shady characters lived in the rock pools, characters that didn't mind if it got a little dry. Follow Detective Swordfish as he returns to a sleepy tidal reef town and digs up the secrets of the creatures that live there. inspired by the work of Stephen Hillenburg and Spongebob Squarepants. Contains only original characters.

A space shanty for a future space faring civilisation.

A solitary lighthouse keeper, tormented by doubts about his sanity, finally sets out across the pier toward civilization. But as he battles a violent sea, he realizes something unseen may not let him leave. A Lovecraftian short story.

A series of short stories about Chrysalis, a ghost lodger and the breathing house they live in.

The largest moving object in history, measuring in at 5,280 ft. 6in., the SS Olympian is ready to embark on the first ever world tour cruise. Loaded to her maximum capacity, carrying with over 10,000 souls and a captain that knows the ship like the back of his hand. She is thought to be unsinkable, with her captain, Captain J. A. Rogers and his husband assuring the passengers that only human error could possibly cause the ship to founder. The ship embarks for a journey that will be remembered in history forever.

Story from a true experience as a Tuna Boat deck hand in 1980.

Cilos is about to turn 16 years old. After spending his whole life training in the arts of swordplay, fishing, crafting and sailing, the time has come for him to take the Rites of Mysticus to assume guardianship of his home Wind Birth Isle. But, when an unexpected ship looms on the horizon, bringing with it a fell beast of the sky, Cilos must now leave his home and partner with the alluring Maris who not only is his best chance of saving his sister Creeyl, but to stop the ever looming threat of Scelus, a dark God of the deep, and the sinister acolytes who will stop at nothing to undue his imprisonment.

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Finding a door within a tree would make you curious. Let's go inside.. Created via 2 prompts on The Write Inspiration.

Jo didn't know how to swim. She never needed it growing up in Oregon. There wasn't a beach and she wasn't much for water anyways. But her mom had to move them to Florida 3 years ago, when Jo was 15. Now it seemed she couldn't escape water. How do you survive the ocean if you don't know how to swim? You learn. And that's just what she'll do. But Jo just might get more than she bargained for this summer. I would like to say that this story is fictional and all peoples named in this book are fictional or their characteristics are a depiction of my own thoughts. Also, this book may contain sexual content, foul language, and violence. For warning I will put an astrik (*) near the chapter title. Examples: Drug Usage: **** Sexual content: *** Violence: ** Foul language: * Thank you for your time and I hope you enjoy the read. I will update every other Saturday.

A Boy Named Daniel is a sweeping historical drama set during the Napoleonic Wars, following fourteen-year-old Abigail Holt who escapes a life of poverty and danger by disguising herself as a boy and joining the Royal Navy under her dying brother's name - Daniel. What begins as survival turns into a life of adventure, loyalty, love, and transformation. As Daniel, she earns the respect of her crew and the trust of a principled young captain. But secrets don't stay buried forever. Spanning sea battles, royal courts, and quiet moments of courage, this is the story of one girl who became a legend not by pretending to be someone else - but by daring to become herself. "In a world ruled by men, she chose to fight like one - and love as herself." "The war made her a soldier. The sea made her free."

Best friends quarantined in one house. In the mist of a messy love triangle they also find evidence that will help them understand how the events in their past unfolded and why. This said evidence puts a target on their lives considering that is it a HUGE progressive to the current world wide epidemic happening before our eyes. Due to certain events the characters are not able to trust anyone but themselves to figure this mystery out. Not even government or law enforcement.

When Captain Erasmus Hawthorn took command of the Victoria, he expected hardship, not a mutiny. The ship was old, her crew half-trained, and her loyalties uncertain. Yet it is one of his own-a silent, sharp-eyed boy-that begins to unravel everything he thought he knew of order and obedience. As storms rise and the line between honor and survival thins, Erasmus finds his crew turned corsair and his conscience tested by a sea that answers to no crown. Amid blood, salt, and the hush between thunder, trust becomes a currency more perilous than gold-and somewhere in that quiet, a bond takes root that could damn or deliver them both.

A poem by me