The Skyline of a Ship

By Anna Stroud

'It's a wrecked ship, anchored over there and left alone. I don't know what it's doing there, or how on earth it has outlived storm after storm for years. They say that, sometimes, people go there and never come back. I'd like to reach it, someday, just to see.'

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anna Stroud
• Release date: Jul 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311337160

Anna Stroud

Anna Stroud grew up amidst the forests and fields of Central France. She studied Life and Environmental Science and Technology at the University of AgroParisTech. Her work has been published in Nouveau Monde magazine, Temps Morts and in Sombres Rets Editions.

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The Skyline of a Ship

By Anna Stroud

Copyright 2016 Anna Stroud

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I rip off a new sheet from my calendar. This is February the third, 2051. Good news: the thirds are Salad Days. I grab my itchy green tweed coat, and leave my flat. The door grates the floor as it slams. I own twenty square meters, and something tells me that it’s not meant to last, because twenty is a lot for someone living alone.

In the meantime, I’m walking along the dyke, not minding the salty bite of the wind. Just to clear my head. All over the pavement, the seaweed carried by the last Large Tide, cracks under my feet. I don’t like to see the swarms of flies rising to swirl around my legs. But at this time of the day, the Transport System is overcrowded – and the