Drabble | Flash Fiction | Sea Story | A “My Granddaddy Story”
A Soldier’s Sea Story
Scrambled by a storm at sea
This is a Drabble — a story of exactly 100 words. This Drabble was created in response to August Fiction Writing Prompt Idea 1 from the list on The Fiction Writer’s Den by JF Danskin.
Idea 1
Write a drabble from the perspective of a passenger on a ship during a terrible storm. Where are they heading for? How calm do they stay during the events? And does it all end in relief or disaster?
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“Granddaddy, have you ever been on a cruise?”
“Just one, Straw Tick, coming back from WWI. We ran into a hurricane. If the Captain hadn’t ordered all us soldiers into the hold, we’d have sunk for sure.”
“How did that help?”
“Well, when the ship pitched bow down, we ran to the stern. When it pitched up, we clambered toward the bow. If it rolled to port, we’d claw our way across the deck to the starboard side and do the opposite if it rolled too far to starboard.”
