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A Quiet Night with Pirates | Sleep Story
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Around seventeen twenty, a pirate ship lies on her side in the shallows of a quiet bay off Madagascar, while her crew spends the weeks scraping, mending and preparing her for the sea again.
Nothing here needs to be followed to the end. If you fall asleep while the tide is still moving around the hull, the evening has done what it came to do.
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Tonight: life on Saint Mary's Island during the age of piracy, where a crew empties its ship onto the beach and slowly careens her in the warm shallows. Barnacles are scraped from the hull…
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