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Shoals O' Herring
By Colin Garrow
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Tired of his day job, young Stevie joins the crew of a fishing trawler - but life at sea isn't as romantic as he expects:
It was November and it was cold, and I wasn’t getting along very well with the skipper. We’d only been away from port a few days, but I knew I never, ever, wanted to go to sea again.
You see, I’d read books and I’d seen films, and I loved all that romantic stuff about the ocean: bright summer days, the wind in your hair, nothing on the horizon but a clear blue sky, and me stood on deck all macho and handsome as I hunted for the shoals of herring. That was the life for me, I thought.
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Colin Garrow
Colin Garrow grew up in a former mining town in Northumberland. He has worked in a plethora of professions including: taxi driver, antiques dealer, drama facilitator, theatre director and fish processor, and has occasionally masqueraded as a pirate. All Colin's books are available as eBooks and most are also out in paperback, too. His short stories have appeared in several literary mags, including: SN Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Word Bohemia, Every Day Fiction, The Grind, A3 Review, 1,000 Words, Inkapture and Scribble Magazine. He currently lives in a humble cottage in North East Scotland where he writes novels, stories, poems and the occasional song.
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