Porter Thorkelson
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Dominion Over the Taffrail
La Linterna Del Mar, a century-old galleon captained by Sancho Navarro, following the southernmost coast of the Spanish Indies, and being bound by time, sailed northward into a tempest. Heeling in the wind and rocking violently against the waves, the 161 souls on board held fast for their lives. The ocean and wind conspired for the duration of three days and three nights, claiming thirteen souls to the depths of the sea. The Captain, Sancho Navarro, after witnessing his own nephew be swept over the taffrail and lost to the sea, ordered that the crew withdraw from their posts and pray together below deck while he remained at the helm. In the morning after the tempest had lifted and the sun rose from the east, Sancho and some of the crew fell to their knees thanking God for preserving them, while others cursed God, for now, they were afloat on a windless sea.
By Porter Thorkelson2 years ago in Fiction