The Last Crossing
Kurt had been spinning records on the MV Celestial Dawn for eleven years, and if he never heard another drunk accountant request "Sweet…
Cruise or ferry stories, from quick reads to long series. Most cruise or ferry stories here sit in erotic couplings and fetish. Reads run 14 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Midnight Stage, Summit Compass and Timber Craft. Readers usually start with “Boots and a Tent” and “Crossing the Strait”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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Kurt had been spinning records on the MV Celestial Dawn for eleven years, and if he never heard another drunk accountant request "Sweet…
I boarded the Starboard Queen on a Tuesday afternoon with a duffel bag and a printout of my reservation, because I don't trust phones on…
Leah Hodges is twenty-eight years old, and she has decided, somewhere around the fourth pallet of the night shift, that she is the least…
My name is Alanna Mathews, I'm forty-seven years old, and I've been a deckhand on the M.V.
*This one came from a daydream about competitive flirting on a boat, there's something about the salt air and the promise of a finite…
So there I was, cabin 712 on the Stella Atlantica, ten days of paid work between Lisbon and Rio, thinking I had the world's best luck.
Dianne was sixty-two years old and she had been driving trucks for the better part of forty years, and if you'd told her at twenty-two…
The travel agent called it a couples' cruise.
I keep a snow globe on the shelf above my bunk.
You know what used to kill me about Krissy?
Let me tell you how it started, because it started with a sandwich board, of all things.
The bus dropped me at the end of the gravel road at four in the afternoon.
I've been the sous chef on the Pride of the Caribbean for three years now, which sounds fancier than it is.
So there I was, thirty-four years old, standing in the loading line of the MV Tanner with a duffel bag full of tattoo equipment and…
I'm thirty-four years old, I have a car payment, a knee that clicks when it's cold, and a text message from my former coach that I've now…
I've been a librarian for eleven years, and I've never once done anything reckless.
My name is Hilary Fox, I'm twenty-nine years old, and I was pacing the promenade deck of a ferry as if I'd lost my keys, my wallet, and my…
I'd been cleaning cabins for eleven months and I'd stopped feeling anything about it somewhere around month four.
Mai had run her bakery for thirty-one years, and in all that time she had never once shared a workspace, a kitchen, or a wall with anyone…
My name is Claude, I am sixty-two years old, and I have been doing this midnight round for longer than most of the crew has been alive.
Midnight Stage, Summit Compass, Timber Craft, Heather Phrase
Cruise or ferry stories, from quick reads to long series.
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Most cruise or ferry stories take 14 to 24 minutes, and the average is 19. Sort by shortest to start small, or follow a series to get each part as it lands.