Touching Strangers by C E Aylett

Finding light within the despicable

General Fiction. Originally published in Flash Fiction Online.

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When the ship’s captain and the fat man who brought us all here stood together on the dock, talking low, I should have taken it as a sign. Their hands jabbed the night air in anger, and a murmur passed through me that my husband and I had made a mistak…