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Amazon's having a pirate short story competition. I got as far as this in their story framework and then cracked up: He was all teeth and curls, but with a pleasant open face. Gideon Defoe's a Doctor Who fan, then? ('all teeth and curls' and 'pleasant open face' are the cliches that turn up in almost every Target novelisation - at least the Terrance Dicks ones - to describe Four and Five, respectively. I wonder if the Pirate Captain has capacious pockets.)