( Run Aground, Chapters 15-16 )

( Run Aground, Chapters 12-14 )

( Run Aground, Chapters 9-11 )

( Run Aground, Chapters 5-8 )

More archiving...

First installment posted to the hhfic yahoo group on 5/11/03; the last, on 1/22/06.

Gen, PG

Novella-length, primarily Hornblower book-verse, fitting into the time between the end of Flying Colours and the beginning of Commodore Hornblower.

( Run Aground, Chapters 1-4 )

A 100 word drabble. Inspired by my discovery that Temeraire spent her last years as a receiving hulk, anchored off Sheerness. Given that Bush--himself 'anchored' for a time at Sheerness--was a junior lieutenant on Temeraire at Trafalgar, it seemed somehow quite fitting.

Temeraire: LamentationsAnchored, she mourns ( Read more... )

A 100-word drabble, originally posted on hh100, which presupposes the reader's knowledge of events depicted in Flying Colours and Lord Hornblower.

God Help Sailors

"God help sailors on a night like this."Memory prompted a smile, relieving the captain's stern mask. A thoughtless prayer from the lips of a man who knew no god, yet God had heard and ( Read more... )

Hmmm. My first entry. Because Blackhounds' fact-dump on Chichester got me to thinking. CSF tells us that Bush's mother and sisters lived in Chichester--but what if his blacksmith uncle did not? Every dockyard employed blacksmiths: no surprise when one considers that the average 74 carried approximately 100 tons of ironwork, not including her ( Read more... )