Tag: perpetual daylight

• PERPETUAL DAYLIGHT

  The sun touched the horizon at midnight. As low as it would go for another month. Aboard the Royal Navy brig Fancy, Percy lay awake in his hammock. Even below deck sunlight seeped in. Thomas snored next to him. Percy turned away from him. Another night without sleep. He was exhausted. They had been at anchor blockading…

  Iain Kelly

  04/02/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

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