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Submitted to Contest #154
Somewhere over the Atlantic, 1745. Captain Hale was found freshly dead in his quarters early Monday morning, and before the sun had even reached its peak everyone on the Consolata was believing something different. Hanged himself with his belt, said one. No, the decision was made with a bullet, said another. Yet more theories floated about. Gazes slid to and fro, searching for a too-shifty eye or a too-quick breath. Ellis was the one who discovered the corpse. He’d cracked the door open, thro...
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