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Submitted to Contest #8
I’m almost positive we’re going to die here. Our sailing boat hit a reef some two kilometres out at sea and capsized. We spent approximately two hours trying and failing to right it once more but its wooden frame stayed stubbornly upturned, gently swaying in the waves. It wasn’t even our ship; it was belonged to a friend of John’s father — a pompous, wealthy politician no doubt. It had taken us some three weeks of pleading and promises of repayment in the form of painting the bungalow flat in the back garden to even be awarded permission to ...
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