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Title: Like Ghosts
Rating: K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above)
Disclaimers: The world of Richard Bolitho is the sole creation of Alexander Kent. I'm only borrowing a very small part of it. Names given in this story are fictional and any relation to an actual person, living or dead, is purely incidental.
Original pen-date: 7 November 2010
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[idler_1814]

Very, very nice....and quite affecting. Beautifully written! An excellent piece for Remembrance Day: this was as much (more, maybe?) a part of history as the heroism and victory we tend to prefer. A different kind of courage--not so glamorous, certainly--but heroism still.

And Command a King's Ship! One of my favorites...the end, particularly.

[wayward_shadows]

*bows* Thank you! It was a delightful challenge to write, for I've never directly written a disabled character. You're very right, though. Accolades and glory are only one part of the whole, but the part that is given the most attention.

^___^ It's been just long enough since I've read it that the details are hazy and forgotten, so it's a pleasure to rediscover it all. Huzzay for favoured books!

[idler_1814]

It was a delightful challenge to write, for I've never directly written a disabled character.

Seems to me that you met that challenge admirably. Gibbons was neither pitiful nor superhuman...just, simply, 'getting on with it.' As you say, training himself to live all over again. As good a description as any, I should think.