by Ann Lee Miller | May 23, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
The three-foot hammerhead shark lay writhing, white belly up, on the Pier 1 planks while we kids gaped. Matt Canfield jerked his pole and the fish galumphed a foot closer on its fishing line tether. Kate, Scottie, R.J., and I shrieked and skittered backwards. The eye... 
by Ann Lee Miller | May 16, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
This story was published in the Australian magazine Great Ocean Quarterly [Vol. 1:4] Fall 2014 We’d sailed out of Biscayne Bay into the rumpled, navy blue bedspread of the Atlantic an hour ago. The last shadow of land disappeared and familiar fear funneled into... by Ann Miller | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
My cousin Diane landed in deep doo doo for mouthing off to my Dad’s sister one too many times and got shipped from Ohio to reform school—i.e. my life. We sailed to Key West, fetched Di from the airport, and anchored off Marathon Key. Di made a tiny haystack of fish... by Ann Lee Miller | May 1, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
The seven a.m. sun burned through the open hatch and baked my shoulder as my eyes blinked open. I rolled into the shade under the deck, the nape of my neck already damp with sweat. My feet hit the floor next to my swim suit bottoms lying in a sandy wad. I snatched... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
I tip-toed across the deck, debating the chances I could disappear before Dad saddled me with some miserable boat chore he thought up while I was sitting in Sister Sheila’s sixth grade English class. I skirted the cockpit and ducked behind the aft cabin, not daring to...
