Nell has spent too many nights listening to sailors boast about things she'll never experience, writing every filthy detail down in a notebook she keeps hidden away. Her life is the same thing day after day; that is until the day she snaps, and goes down to the quay seeking passage to new worlds.

She makes it aboard one merchant vessel, but the sacrifice she has to make in doing so leaves her... vulnerable.

Hauled into the captain’s cabin, Nell is ready to bargain for passage with whatever she has.

A short, explicit age-of-sail story about a woman who runs towards experiences she had only dreamed of, and a captain who struggles not to break his own rules.

"Stowed Away Desires - Part 1"

by Ridley Wilde