Fingerbang #3
5-day, 500-word challenge for the prompt: "magnetism."
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In 1849, one evening when the sky melted blue in the gloaming, Francis found it. He half-suspected it was a mirage—some kind of delusion brought on by debility—until he removed his mittens and pressed his fingertips to the smooth stones. The places where they kissed burned his skin.
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Francis swallows. “I wasn’t aware the costume trunks were out.”
“They’re not out, persay,” James says, running his hand along the fabric. “I just snuck this one out of the trunk before we left harbour.”
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- Part 3 of kt's terror ficlets
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One couldn’t spend as long as Thomas Jopson had around Captain Francis Crozier without learning a thing or two about the principles of magnetism.
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The magnetic North Pole wanders, and so does the man who discovered it.
Lady Ann reflects on her husband's career and where that leaves her.
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Crozier attends a lecture at the Royal Society. Fitzjames tries to find out how magnets work.