Six Sentence Sunday - January 23rd

I'm in the mood for pirates this week, since next Saturday is Tampa's Gasparilla Festival, a Mardi Gras-style, buccaneer  celebration of the famed invasion of Jose Gaspar on the Bay. 

This is a scene from the wild pirate hangout of Tortuga where Ciel, the mermaid, is being seduced by Raphael, the pirate captain--from my book Tears on a Tranquil Lake, releasing in 9 days. Yes, I'm excited!

          Raphael corked a half-filled bottle of the finest Cuban blend to take along. He supported my tipsy frame, balanced unstably upon my spread tail fin, his arm wrapped securely around my waist. Together, we eased through the thick darkness of a cloudy night lit only by tavern lanterns. We picked our way carefully over and around more passed out mariners than we could count, as well as numerous clinched pairs of whores and buccaneers in varying states
of undress. Hedonism and debauchery flourished, hidden under the shroud of night.
         The theme of the evening continued inside Raphael’s fine captain’s quarters.

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Art reference (top) angrymikko