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I didn’t plan to be here. I didn’t want to be here. But somehow, I ended up here! I didn’t have a name before now, but just a few days ago, I suddenly ended up with the name, “Sushi”. I don’t know what sushi is, but whenever the prison guard tells someone my name, they… Continue reading A Very Fishy Escape by Hannah Carr

Pilikia was a beautiful sixteen year old girl with long thick dark brown hair and ocean blue eyes. Pilikia fell in love with an eighteen year old man named Pau. She met him one night while she was walking along the breezy shores of Hana, Hawaii. As she stared at the ground kicking the warm… Continue reading The First Pirate by Brianna Allen

Eathelin was trapped in the midst of a vicious whirlpool. She rowed and struggled with all of her strength, but the swirling vortex was much too powerful. At any given moment, she would be sucked down into an endless abyss. The tang of the saltwater entered her nostrils as she was pulled to the center… Continue reading Transformation by Aubree Guymon

Swords clashing. Cannons firing. Fire blazing. I rush down into the cargo hold and push aside barrels of rum and leftover gunpowder. Tripping over a pile of rope I stumble back onto my feet and glance out the nearest porthole. Seeing another enemy ship approach us from the port side, I pull out my spyglass… Continue reading The Phantom’s Eye in the Deep by Anna Eyre

The night seemed fully normal. If a man were to walk by the ocean would have noticed the light of the full moon dancing on the water, the scent of a salty ocean breeze, the sound of crashing waves. No, nothing would seem out of the ordinary in this seaside scene. But if the man… Continue reading The Duck and the Sea Dragon by Avie Eichelberger

There once was a time when humans knew about the Mer-Folk. They worked together once and all was well. Then the freeze came. Slowly, as though by magic, every body of water froze over, it started from the shore line slowly creeping in towards the center, eight inches thick all the way through, and it… Continue reading Through a Sheet of Ice by Allison Williams

The ACS Wyvern. A starship of majesty and imposing power. The crown jewel of the Armada. Her bullet-shaped body - the prime example of the top-of-the-line Xerxes class - carries the best weapons, the best shields, the best crew. Her captain, the galaxy-renowned James Johnston, is a veteran of many large battles, including Harm's Way,… Continue reading The Passage of the Hemingway by Nate Cunningham

Part 1 Black and White Caia sat, content for the moment. She was in a bay on the upper half of Polren, open to the Lerene Ocean. The sun reflected the glistening ocean into her eyes. It was annoying, but she had grown use to all of the peculiarities of the sea, including the cold… Continue reading Essence of Mercy by Trenton Morrison