THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Seven, Chapter VI

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Seven, Chapter VI

I moved through throngs of passengers populating the corridors of the ship.  Murmurs of “doctor” came from some of them, as they reacted to my surgical scrubs.  I had removed my coat.  The temperature maintained inside the vessel hallways was always high,...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Seven, Chapter IV

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Seven, Chapter IV

 The bar on the Lido deck is where I settled in for the afternoon run out toward the Diomede Islands.  Passengers were drinking like proverbial fish and talking like magpies, so it didn’t take long to learn that our speed approached nine knots.  That put our...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Seven, Chapter III

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Seven, Chapter III

 I learned from Don, my bunkie and fellow de-frocked PhD, that the ship was never referred to as the “MS World Discoverer,” which was painted in black across her white prow and in white across her black stern.  Unlike most ships, because of seafaring lore about...
Chapter Seven, Arch Patton: The Bering Sea

Chapter Seven, Arch Patton: The Bering Sea

CHAPTER SEVEN Hull Down in a Following Sea I moved through the throngs of passengers now populating the corridors of the ship. Murmurs of “doctor” came from some of them, as they reacted to my surgical scrubs. I had removed my coat. The temperature maintained inside...

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