The voyage was uneventful until the ship arrived in America on Oct. 29, just in time to meet the 2011 Nor’easter (a.k.a. Snowtober). The Chairman of the Board, Hendrick Van der Decken, repeatedly vowed that his tulips would reach port despite the Devil himself.
Wind and surf drove the sailing ship miles up the coast, from Virginia to New Jersey. During a desperate Board of Directors Emergency Meeting, the ship capsized. A snownado scooped up Van der Decken and deposited his frozen corpse several miles inland.
Legend has it that on Halloween night, at lowest tide, you can still see a ruined office chair rising from the waves, and hear defiant swearing on the wind, in Dutch.
Thus began the Legend of the Flying Chairman.
125 words, inspired by this week’s Friday Fictioneers prompt:
(Okay, I cheated the word count a little, too much fun.)
Great story. LOL Legend of the Flying Chairman. 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for reading.
Ha ha 🙂
Sounds like one of the lame pun-y jokes my uncle tells 😛
Fun stuff!
Complex eludes me, but I can sometimes pull off “fun.”
😊
Very clever and funny.
Thanks Mick. How many did you do this week??!
Very imaginative and well told. 🙂
Thanks, had a good time.
Dear Dave,
I like Snowtober and snownado. Very clever overall.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Snowtober isn’t fiction; really happened. The rest of the story is 😛
Here in New England we call them Wintercanes. I laughed out loud at the “Flying Chairman.”
Ooh, well I can’t ask for more than that. Thanks for reading!
Flying chairman.. that’s a keeper.
As long as he isn’t haunting your local waterway, sure he is!
I love it. The flying chairman is a dutchman, too, no less. Very clever and funny.
Maybe the original dutchman hit a time warp or something… Watch tonight on Mysteries of the Unexplained ::eerie music::
I agree with Rochelle concerning the “snow” words. Will need to look up Snowtober. I like the haunting at the end. Nicely done.
Snownado was just an obvious development after Sharknado Week, I think 😛
…but of course. lol
A good legend!
lily
It took a while to get to that joke, but it was worth it. I laughed out loud. Well done, Dave. 😀 — Suzanne