

It’s utterly disgusting, and I’d give anything for a hot chocolate instead, but nooo. I take a drink of the champagne-sparkling wine?-I brought on my little adventure straight out of the bottle.Ĭlassy, Petter, I mutter, ignore the lingering feeling of yuck on my tongue and take another, bigger gulp.

That’s something I’m going to change this coming year, too. I’m also opposed to the actual celebration, but I always let myself be talked into shit I don’t want to do. New beginnings, new times, new you! Who decided that a new year should symbolize all that? Why do we even need new beginnings, why does everything always have to be better and newer? It’s not that I’m anti-change-considering I’m about to make a huge change in my life, that’d just be stupid-I’m just opposed to picking an arbitrary point in time to celebrate it. So I apologize if you happen to live there, please don’t be angry with me. The fishing village below the ancient site exists, but I’ve taken huge liberties with it and made it into something that worked better for my story.

The stone ship in this story is a real place called Ale’s Stones here in Sweden. And to my morning writing buddies for excellent cheerleading, and my beta readers for whipping my words into shape. Published in the United States of America.Ī huge thank you to Thomas Grant Bruso who gave me the idea to this story. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations.

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