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Happy Hallowen!
Though this is not a furry story, it is a small ghost story you might enjoy.
My grandfather, a sailor during WWI, instilled a love of the sea into my life. I am also a huge fan of history, and one of my favorite things to do is find an old picture, and then place myself within it... going back to the time it was taken. These are windows to our past, and virtual doorways into the understanding of how life was lived in a time long gone. It is a wonderful yet very scary experience for the writer when they become truly connected to the past in this fashion. I would suggest the experience to anyone - you too can do this; if you but try.
'Smudgepot' was the term sailing ship sailors used for the first dirty coal fired ships of their times, which left a black trail of smoke on the horizon.
Vixyy Fox
Though this is not a furry story, it is a small ghost story you might enjoy.
My grandfather, a sailor during WWI, instilled a love of the sea into my life. I am also a huge fan of history, and one of my favorite things to do is find an old picture, and then place myself within it... going back to the time it was taken. These are windows to our past, and virtual doorways into the understanding of how life was lived in a time long gone. It is a wonderful yet very scary experience for the writer when they become truly connected to the past in this fashion. I would suggest the experience to anyone - you too can do this; if you but try.
'Smudgepot' was the term sailing ship sailors used for the first dirty coal fired ships of their times, which left a black trail of smoke on the horizon.
Vixyy Fox
Category Story / All
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File Size 191 kB
haha, thats so cool, a wonderful ghost story!
becoming connected to the past through writing... thats one of the great things about literature, isnt it? you find such interesting ways to bring your stories to life. i had a great uncle who was in WW2, he bought me a watch before he died...
*hugs* again, you amaze me with the diversity of your work ^_Y_^
becoming connected to the past through writing... thats one of the great things about literature, isnt it? you find such interesting ways to bring your stories to life. i had a great uncle who was in WW2, he bought me a watch before he died...
*hugs* again, you amaze me with the diversity of your work ^_Y_^
Sometimes there is barely a hair's breadth between God’s mercy and the Devil’s mean streak, and never so close as in a good ghost story . . . I love it. Ghosts are probably as diverse as the living, though I’ve been lucky not to have met a really nasty one. And this fellow certainly seems no worse than the living that are his company ;)
Wow, cool story and smacks of authenticity since this sort of thing did happen and can still happen with oil and gas fired boilers. rusting metal can eliminate the oxygen in a firebox and although the fire may be small, the sudden onrush of fresh air can flash a firebox. This is why it is a big deal to open any boiler's firebox and forced ventilation is a requirement. I love this sort of story, thank you for sharing.
Great little piece. Short and sweet. A bit eerie and even raw, the time of the steam ships was harder time than this modern times we live now. My father is a seaman, he was a chief officer in the Finnish merchant navy, but is now retired. He likes to tell stories from the sea, although his stories are quite different from this one. He says the men who shoveled the coal in steam ships had no children. The heat killed all their sperm. But, your story. Well, I have nothing much to say anymore, the story is rather short. But I liked it. Nice little piece.
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