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Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Sea adventures: 5 of 5

And Atlantis fell into the seatwo-thirds of it, at leastwith a surge that eclipsed the vault of heaven. It collapsed into the sea with its running-water pipes and its flushing toilets and its walls painted in smiling brown boys with fish. But its shining people were long gone: they had taken their jewels and their favorite things, and they'd fitted out their tall ships, and they'd sailed before the wave, when they'd felt the rumbling. And in a snug cove the crew of the Matthew waited for the dawn. For fifty-three days, they'd slept in short snatches on filthy, rolling bunks and emptied the...
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