In honor of talk like a Pirate Day!
She stood at the front of the ship as it moved swiftly through the water toward the other ship. She dressed like a man but no one would ever mistake her for one, with the long blond curls hanging down her back and her feminine curves accentuated by the tight breeches. As her ship pulled along side the french supply ship, she unsheathed her sword and lead her men in a vicious attack. She may have looked like a soft woman with her rounded checks and bright eyes but she was a pirate after all and soon the crew of the french ship surrendered to the Valkyrie and her men. She had grown fond of the nickname bestowed on her by a conquered ships crew many years ago. She felt like a Valkyrie on days like this where she and her crew celebrated another capture. She had not always been this wild and reckless pirate. A long time ago she had been another young women on the marriage mart attending balls in London. In that first season she was out and looking for a husband she quickly realized that the life of a docile wife married to a Peer of the realm was not the life for her, but with few choices open to a women she felt she had no choice. But then the most amazing thing happened, on a voyage to the colonies the next year to visit her sister her ship was captured by pirates and she was at their mercy. Instead of whimpering and crying at fate she decided that perhaps this was a good thing and quickly she not only won over her pirate captors but joined them, eventually earning her own ship and she never looked back. Now, years later she regretted nothing. She liked the freedom she had, she liked the sea, she liked her men. She was a happy women. She sat back in the chair sipping the delicious brandy they had taken from the french ship, watched her men celebrate and thought about the handsome young captain of the french ship in her hold, perhaps she should invite the captain to dinner to discuss his surrender.
Yo ho , ho, ho, she thought, a pirates life for me!
4 comments:
Heather,
Congratulations; with only a slight additional amount of editorial rework needed, you have just put together the opening paragraph to a lovely BDSM soft-core porn fantasy!
When you're done exploring pirates and prisoners (I just love that the captured ship's captain is French, BTW; how come the hero characters in chick lit sex fantasies are never Norwegians, or Jews?) I suggest revisiting the classics. You can start with the older teacher who seduces her handsome but sexually inexperienced younger student, or maybe the demanding female boss who steps across the line and requires just a little too much from her male protege (e.g., see Sandra Bullock in the recent straight-to-video flick, "The Proposal"), or (pitch-perfect in these trying economic times) the landlord who drops by to demand the rent but settles for an alternative mode of payment.
I have to hand it to you for being original here; the female pirate captain who ravishes her handsome and culturally sophisticated French prisoner lends a new twist to this old theme, whereas the versions of the story that I mentioned are mostly cliched at this point.
Good work!
--Andy
Andy,
Wow, thank you for the high praise, coming from you I know it is heartfelt. You are absolutely right about the twist, I was going exactly for that, the sauve, sophisticated frenchman falls for the rough pirate woman. Brillian, right? I am thinking that there is definitely a niche market in the romance field for this kind of story. I am hoping an editor sees this post and thinks I am the next big thing in romance writing. Did you know that romance novels have $1.43 billion in sales every year. Year after year, it accounts for between 49% and 56% of all popular paperback fiction sold in the United States. Amazing right, some of these writers make millions. Again, thank you for your comments, it is super to recieve such praise.
PS. It is the accent, women love french, british, itailan, spanish accents, they are sexy. I mean look at Russell Crowe, the man is a complete as, but the man is exactly what a reader of a romance novel would like to envision in the male character part, humm maybe for my next story I will feature a Russell Crowe character.
Hmmmm, accents...like for example in the museum scene from "When Harry Met Sally"? "Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash, but I would be proud to partake of your pecan pie." That's sexy, huh? Gosh, I'm surprised; who knew?
Yes,
Exactly like that, I mean she did fall for him didn't she? And lets admit something right here, she was way too pretty for him, so yes it was the accent.
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