a story

hi guys! today i'm bringing you a story and maybe having people reading it will compel me to finish it. so here it is!

(insert opening scentence here)

“Maddy, I'm going to the grocery store, your father is inside and I'll be back in about an hour.” her mom called.

“alright!” Maddy yelled back, “see you in a bit!” she waved as her mom pulled out of the driveway.

Her mom had been gone for less than 5 minutes when she heard a clunk and scraping on the driveway. She looked over to see five confused-looking pirates sitting in a rowboat. Her first instinct was to go get her father and tell him that there had been strange people climbing up their roof. Then she realized that these we re not just people dressed like pirates that had fallen off a roof. And anyway, how did they get the rowboat on the roof without a ladder?

Maddy looked around. She could see no evidence of someone climbing the house. She looked back, checking to see if the pirates were still there. They were. They were now trying to paddle across the driveway, to no avail. Maddy felt that there was no way around it: she would have to talk to the pirates.

“Uh, hello!” Maddy said cheerfully as she approached the pirates. The pirates were too busy arguing over the oars to hear her.

“Hello?” Maddy repeated, louder this time. All five pirates turned their heads, dropping the oars.

“Ahoy, matey,” said the first pirate. “Can ye direct us to the nearest sea?”

“I'm afraid not,” Maddy replied, “the nearest one is twelve hours away by car. I've only been once, I don't know the way.” The pirate looked disappointed. “Why are you here, anyway?”

The second pirate replied this time. “We'll have to tell ye the story then, maties.”

The third pirate cleared his throat. “It was an average day aboard our ship. Captain, First Mate. Pegleg, Cook and I were playing cards. I was winning, too. Then it started to pour. Hard and cold, and the wind picked up. Ripped right through our sails, tossed the sea and tossed water into our vessel. We were the only ones aboard, naturally. The rest of our crew was arrested at an English port, but that's not important. The ship started sinkin' and we knew we only had one choice, we had to abandon ship.” the fourth pirate then picked up,

“but once we started rowin' the strangest thing happened. We started shooting through mist, rocking, but it was nothing like the rocking of the sea. then we landed here.” he concluded.

Maddy was confused. The only things she knew of that did that where time machines. “is this a time machine?” She asked the pirates. The pirates looked at each other, clearly confused.

so that's all for today, i hope you enjoyed!

-ali