Fic Announcement: Open Boat
Open Boat
By Lokei
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: This benefits my leisure hours, not my pocketbook.
Author’s Note: This was my submission for Hornblower Appreciation Week 2008, and much to my surprise and delight, it won the fanfic category. *still amazed* Congrats to all the other winners and participants!
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“It was like the games Hornblower had played as a lonely little boy, when he had sat in the empty pig-trough and pretended he was cast away in an open boat.” Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Hornblower had never before faulted himself for a lack of imagination. He had faults enough, to be sure, and knew himself to be shy, awkward, hideously old at seventeen to be beginning his as-yet hardly illustrious career at sea-but he had always credited himself with a decent imagination. Read on...
By Lokei
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: This benefits my leisure hours, not my pocketbook.
Author’s Note: This was my submission for Hornblower Appreciation Week 2008, and much to my surprise and delight, it won the fanfic category. *still amazed* Congrats to all the other winners and participants!
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“It was like the games Hornblower had played as a lonely little boy, when he had sat in the empty pig-trough and pretended he was cast away in an open boat.” Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Hornblower had never before faulted himself for a lack of imagination. He had faults enough, to be sure, and knew himself to be shy, awkward, hideously old at seventeen to be beginning his as-yet hardly illustrious career at sea-but he had always credited himself with a decent imagination. Read on...