Sounds as if our captain hath sighted land. From the rattling of those sails, not long. He laid aside the journal and gazed upwards at the ceiling. I meant how long before this ship reaches Port Charles?
Gruesome business, hanging, and a horrid way to meet one’s maker. Hath seen some jerk and twitch for a minute or more. Dost thou inquire as to how long it takes to expire? Verily I say, when it comes to swinging by the neck, ’tis hard to know. William Shakespeare paused from his scribe scribbling to peer at me through the bars. With a quill in one hand and writing journal in the other, my scribe looked exactly as I remembered his picture on the front cover of Romeo and Juliet. A single candle wedged into a knotty hole illuminated his portly face and owlish eyes. In the cell across from me, William Shakespeare rested in a threadbare hammock strung beneath two sagging support beams. The ship’s brig reeked of urine and feces. Another rush of salty bilge water sloshed up my calves and receded, stinging my open wounds. I clung tightly to the bars of my prison cell and studied the places where iron shackles had worn my skin raw. There is no sexual dialogue or situations, violence, or strong language, only positive moral values.The leaky, wooden ship bashed into another wave, sending a shudder down the length of its hull. Parents can trust the Caribbean Chronicles Series. Well, we best let Ricky tell the account. In the ship's brig he is about to learn that some things are worse than being unpopular in high school. When Dead Calm, Bone Dry begins, Ricky is on his way to be tried for piracy. And that's what happened to Ricky last Christmas Eve: he had an episode and ended up in pirate land. Ricky's teachers are a lot of those people. If you've never heard of absence seizures, that's okay. Except sometimes Ricky "zones out" in class because he has absence seizures. 2018 Directors' Choice Award Winner Finalist Last winter Ricky Bradshaw was another gangly freshman hoping to fit in - or at least not get picked on - and maybe catch the attention of Becky Nance, a girl in his biology class. And there is stolen treasure in this pirate story. would you trade your body to the crew of the "Flying Dutchman" in order to save your soul? Ricky did.
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