I love the concept and I love the structure of it. I REALLY love the structure of it -- the way each story starts off small and perfect before getting more and more complicated and flawed.
Two and a half is my very favourite bit. (PERFECT title)
Also this:
On the gangplank, she turns and stares back at the forge, hoping the note will suffice. He has never been really angry at her before. Oh well, she thinks. If he must feel something, let it be anger. Perhaps it will change him. Or me.
This was the point where I said "ooooohhhhhh" :)
And this:
This isn't your island, love."
I liked your idea of Will and Elizabeth's marriage very much.
And this:
He feels sorry for all those poor buggers trapped back in England or America, trying to tie a half-hitch while their hands are freezing off. Why bother, when even the hardest Caribbean rain eases off to beautiful sunlight? Aye, there was malaria, and his second mate's wife had died last month from yellow fever. And sometimes a coconut could drop on your head. But all in all... not a bad way to go.
Heee. Coconut. The details in this story are great.
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I LOVE it!
I love the concept and I love the structure of it. I REALLY love the structure of it -- the way each story starts off small and perfect before getting more and more complicated and flawed.
Two and a half is my very favourite bit. (PERFECT title)
Also this:
On the gangplank, she turns and stares back at the forge, hoping the note will suffice. He has never been really angry at her before. Oh well, she thinks. If he must feel something, let it be anger. Perhaps it will change him. Or me.
This was the point where I said "ooooohhhhhh" :)
And this:
This isn't your island, love."
I liked your idea of Will and Elizabeth's marriage very much.
And this:
He feels sorry for all those poor buggers trapped back in England or America, trying to tie a half-hitch while their hands are freezing off. Why bother, when even the hardest Caribbean rain eases off to beautiful sunlight?
Aye, there was malaria, and his second mate's wife had died last month from yellow fever. And sometimes a coconut could drop on your head. But all in all... not a bad way to go.
Heee. Coconut. The details in this story are great.
Thank you so much! :)