He Bought My Nights in the Dark, and I Hated Him by Day novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Dock
The photograph was pinned to the notice board outside the Terminal office on Thursday morning, with four red thumbtacks.
It was the Sea Lark at dawn, taken through the wheelhouse glass.
It showed a woman in a man's coat on the gangway, with her braid down and her mouth bruised.
Under it, in block capitals, someone had written: LUNDE GIRL SOLD HERSELF TO AMUNDSEN.
Nobody had signed it.
There were six copies, on the board, on the fuel dock shed, on the door of the ice house.
I read it standing in the wind with my lunch bag in my hand.
Then I took the nearest copy down, folded it small and put it in my pocket, and walked to the loft.
The pier had gone quiet.
The deckhands stopped talking when I passed, and started again behind me, lower.
An old skipper I had known since I was six looked at my feet.
I carried my stool and my needle and a torn crab net to the open loft door, where everybody on the pier could see me.
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