Hunt N. Peck.

by Hunt N. Peck  Chapter the Fourteenth, or Two Wonders.Jack Nastyface and Jake Thackeray sat on the mizzenmast mainsail cross-trees, legs dangling twenty feet above the deck. Below them the pirate crew dispersed and went about their tasks. After a short while the air-pumps re-started their endless honk-wheeze, honk-wheeze, honk-wheeze on the foredeck behind and below … [Read more...] about GREENBEARD: Chapter Fourteen.

by Hunt N. Peck     Chapter the Thirteenth, or The Return To Nombre Dios Bay.Captain Greybagges stood on the stony beach of the Elizabeth River. The Ark de Triomphe rode in the sluggish flow anchored bow-and-stern, with steadying kedges port-and-starboard the bows in a seamanlike fashion. The longboat which had brought him ashore was tying up by its side, … [Read more...] about GREENBEARD: Chapter Thirteen.

by Hunt N. Peck Chapter the Twelfth, or The Summoning of Satan.   “Cap’n, we be lost,” said Bulbous Bill Bucephalus, “and it be as black as pitch.” “I have faith in Izzy,” said Captain Greybagges, “ for he is an excellent scout. He used to track down witnesses and absconders for me when he was my clerk, … [Read more...] about GREENBEARD: Chapter Twelve.

    Chapter the Eleventh, or Blue Peter Trusts His Heart. by Hunt N. Peck The pirate frigate Ark de Triomphe thumped through the Atlantic rollers on a freezing-cold grey spring morning, the strong wind full of sleety rain. The dawn sky was light behind the frigate, yet dark with the promise of more dirty weather to the west where her bowsprit pointed. … [Read more...] about GREENBEARD: Chapter Eleven.