Stellar Stories edition 2
A collection of writing and art from Toronto's youngest authors created during our Young Authors workshops with special thanks to Ontario Trillium Foundation for their support
A collection of writing and art from Toronto's youngest authors created during our Young Authors workshops with special thanks to Ontario Trillium Foundation for their support
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me at all costs, because it's my birthday. Update: our ship<br />
was badly destroyed and now we have to fix it with<br />
whatever we have, including: whale bones, scraps of wood,<br />
the extra wood the whalers gave us, and even a few pieces<br />
of furniture and doors.<br />
Now we are sailing to a dock for repairs, but while we’re<br />
going we have to be highly alert without being seen, so we<br />
set up all sorts of mechanisms to hide ourselves while<br />
seeing everything, and we have all of our weapons readyto-go<br />
just in case, to make it seem like a ghost ship so that<br />
pirates think we’re haunted, and won’t want to attack us.<br />
Update: we have reached the docks and our ship is being<br />
repaired, but the captain has asked the dockworkers to let<br />
us keep the broken things that they remove so that we<br />
always have wood. In exchange we gave them some gold,<br />
rum, whale bones, and sperm oil.<br />
February 9 1879<br />
The first mate has been shot by a traitor whom we have<br />
taken back to Britain, and the first mate was given a proper<br />
Jewish burial. We have been given a week off to attend our<br />
first mate’s funeral in Israel, as it said in his will.<br />
February 12 1879<br />
We have reached Israel with the body by train, courtesy of<br />
the Empire and we have started planning the funeral.<br />
February 13 1879<br />
We have planned the funeral and we are at the funeral.<br />
Update: the funeral is over and we have received a<br />
message that the traitor has been executed. We are now<br />
headed back to Britain.<br />
February 15 1879<br />
We have returned to Britain and are restocking, but now we<br />
need a new first mate, and we are voting over it. Update: I<br />
voted for my brother, but it turns out everyone voted for me<br />
because I won. Everyone put their votes in my box except<br />
for me – I voted for my brother because I can't vote for<br />
myself.<br />
Interlude: Years pass normally and our narrator becomes<br />
the new captain at the age of 20, when the old captain<br />
resigns after a battle.<br />
December 25 1899<br />
I have rediscovered my old journal on Christmas day and<br />
we are celebrating Christmas with whatever we have on<br />
ship. Every British ship in the sea is celebrating Christmas<br />
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