FIC: The Lure (original gen)

[duskpeterson]

Title: The Lure.
Author: Dusk Peterson.
Where to find me: Website, e-mail list, DW, AO3, Patreon, Goodreads.
Setting: Barren Island on the Chesapeake Bay, 1910s. Includes a historical note about the island and Chesapeake fishermen.
Note: Here in Maryland, the Age of Sail has extended to the present day. We have the only remaining American fleet of commercial fishing boats under sail. The fleet is tiny these days, but it's still here. (More info.)
Categories: Original gen, alternate universe / alternate history, young adult, Age of Sail, fishermen, master & servant, mistress & servant, family, spirituality, ethical issues.
Series: Waterman, an award-winning speculative fiction series in an alternative version of the Chesapeake Bay region during the 1910s and during the future as it was envisioned in the 1960s.
Length: Novelette.
Status: Writing completed; currently serializing.
Feedback: Yes, please.
Rating: T.
Warnings: Boilerplate warning for all my stories + my rating system.
Story summary:

His entire life has been a secret. Now he must rip open the secret.

Hannibal S. Mercer has lived all his life in an isolated island home with his loving parents and two servants. Hannibal never receives the opportunity to meet anyone else. The older servant doesn't speak to Hannibal. The younger servant might or might not be an ally in time of trouble.

Now trouble has arrived. When hostile strangers invade Hannibal's world, he must uncover the truth his parents have been hiding from him. And then he must make a choice that will determine the course of his life.

The panic was stronger, now that they had reached the wharf. It was his parents' mightiest rule: Never allow himself to be seen. If, by terrible chance, he met someone in the woods, he must run away immediately.

more Age of Sail AU

[ursula]

A story about alternate Napoleonic Wars, and a Roundhead ghost.

A General at Sea (1624 words) by UrsulaKohl
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Rhezny Brezan, Neshte Khiruev, Garach Jedao Shkan, Ajewen Cheris
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Age of Sail, Worldbuilding, Science Fantasy, Swords, Specifically dirty tricks with cutlasses, Ghosts, Venus - planet
Summary:

It was allegiance to the List that kept a sailor safe in the ghost straits between Earth and the oceans of Venus. The ghosts whispered or called out to sailors, in voices of the dead they'd lost, or children yet unborn. Only the bone-deep, soul-deep knowledge of where one's name was written, the direct obedience one owed to one's superiors, could keep a man from jumping overboard. Or so the story went. Bernard Rees had never encountered difficulty distinguishing the dead from the living.