April 1 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about a swift passage. You can take inspiration from any source. Who is going where and why. What makes it swift? Go where the prompt leads!
A Night To Remember – by Hugh W. Roberts
Like they’d been told when booking their tickets, this would be a swift journey. But for some, the swiftness would become a little longer.
The bright light came from nowhere. It was only the reflection of moonlight that brought it to the attention of some of the passengers.
Its swift passage from its home would only bring death and destruction.
Like a giant sculpture in the middle of the ocean, the iceberg towered above everything. Thirty-nine-year-old *Mr Hugh Roscoe Rood joined just over fifteen hundred others on their swift passage from the Titanic to the next world.
Bon voyage.
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*Mr Hugh Roscoe Rood was an actual passenger abroad the Titanic.
The RMS Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.
Written for the 99-word flash fiction challenge hosted by Charli Mills at the Carrot Ranch. Click here to join in.
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