Port Out Starboard Home and other short stories

By Henry Johnston

Port Out Starboard Home is a collection of stories inspired by the magical realism genre and fantastical travel tales such as Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. The eponymous Port Out Starboard Home is a tale of seafaring phenomena encountered during the author’s migratory journey to Australia. A ghostly captain tells of an encounter with the Flying Dutchman, while the memories of immigrants are evoked in fragments of sea shanty’s and children’s rhymes. Port Out Starboard Home is a story within a story; a cautionary tale of forgotten wanderers, whose hope is wrecked by hidden, pitiless shoals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Henry Johnston
• Release date: May 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311640987

Henry Johnston

Henry Johnston is a full time writer specialising in the short story format. Henry divides his time between inner city Rozelle in Sydney Australia and a 1950s-style beach house. He published the Last Voyage of Aratus, and other stories of sea as a Kindle e-book. Contact Henry on Google+ or on Facebook and look for his stories on the NarratorAustralia website at http://www.narratoraustralia.com/ and his ebook the Last Voyage of Aratus and other stories of the sea at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HYQ5PC6

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