Nautical Stories

[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 he...

(Slow updates) A Subnuatica story of a 12 year old girl named Anna, she was a code commander and a messenger. She crash landed on a alien planet: 4546B, from the ship na...

**Awarded 1st place in the Adventure category in the 2019 Champ Awards.** Ten years after the former Captain Frederick Brewl found himself saved by a creature he never e...

Pirates of the Caribbean comedy and adventure meets a naive narrator, werewolves, fish people, and more in this fantastical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's timele...

A woman, Claire, is trying to escape her troubled past while navigating a blossoming love story with her mysterious neighbor, Elias. But as their bond deepens, Claire re...

A hysterical, historical, alternative-fact filled series of short stories featuring the Upper Chesapeake Bay's most celebrated pirate, orator and leader of men. The myt...

The prequel to "The Song of the Black Sea", where the incident from ten years ago is detailed and how Captain Brewl and Nu first met. A world weary Captain and...

A short story for the reader hungry for literary fiction; it is about a sailor's last look at life on the seas.

my truth is...

A space shanty for a future space faring civilisation.

It is 1805, and Dr. Stephen Byrne leads the rather simple life of a country gentleman and a physician. However, on a voyage to Jamaica, where he has been summoned to try...

Ray has no interest in lighthouses, though his future depends on them. His son, Lincoln, is a fisherman, gone to sea in search of a 'payday catch'. Ray's wife and Lincol...

In a kingdom where certain trades are off-limits to women, a young woman named Celeste is the mastermind behind her father's goldsmith business. Her father, once a lovin...

It’s late October, 1762. After surviving the deadly siege of Havana, Patrick MacPherson and the rest of the ship’s company are looking forward to a well-deserved libert...

Felix a young man who spends most of his time laying around is forced into a world of fear, magic and adventure. Unaware of the true evils that seek him, he and his new...

A spectral lighthouse's mysterious secret is revealed. The titular poem from a forthcoming collection of Nautical-Themed Horror Fiction, 'The Lure.'

Aylin has lived millions of years on the moon. Aarush has lived twenty-three years on earth. The chances of their serendipitous meeting are one-in-three-million. But wit...