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Welcome to the second to the last story for the month of March.

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Our story is titled All aboard the Golden Parrot.

Here is by Louise Hughes.

Now Louise Hughes, who can be found at the website,

Louise Hughes writes.wordpress.com

is a speculative fiction writer and time traveler from the northeast of England.

She enjoys wandering around the hills and dails,

fictionally, literally, and preferably with a flask of tea.

Her work has appeared previously in Strange Horizons,

Daily Science Fiction, and Interzone.

So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back.

Relax.

Let me tell you the story.

The pirate ship sailed past the first buoy,

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