Of Ships and Birds
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Dick’s heart skipped a beat when D’Angiolo, the radio operator, came to smoke him out during his night break and handed him the jotted down coordinates and details of the new salvage.
“Regatta,” D’Angiolo said, in a somber voice. “Isn’t that your friend’s ship?”
Torpedo attack, said the note. Engine exploded. Fuel tank afire.
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- Part 1 of Of Ships and Birds
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As a rule, Dick pretended that that part of his life had never happened. That he hadn't busted his ass off for four years, working at day and studying at night, just to end up rescuing shipwrecks at the far end of the world. The perfect day was a day when he didn't think about it once, when he just existed, baggage-free, blended seamlessly with the environment.
Just one more working class man who'd taken to the sea.
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The one where they became sailors instead, and things didn't go quite as planned.
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- Part 2 of Of Ships and Birds