Shooting Stars Fall (Chapter 11 of "Pirating Slavery")

"The captain wore a freshly washed blousy shirt and tight, blue pants. He had primped for this visit much like a beau does for a call on his lady. He had shaved closely, removing his moustache. His hair, halfway down his back, smelled of roses and was tied with a black velvet ribbon."

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Pirating Slavery, my novel about buccaneers liberating slave ships, will be published in 16 installments twice a week for four months. The 11th chapter appears here:

https://cynthiaadinakirkwo.wixsite.com/pirating-slavery/post/shooting-stars-fall-11

Books, published as installments, make the story more manageable while heightening the experience of reading. The book becomes a companion and a commentary on your day-to-day life as you read it over the course of a few months.

Between chapters, readers have the time to share, talk and speculate about the book.

Try it!

Book serials first appeared in 1836, when a French newspaper published Honore de Balzac. At the same time, in England, Charles Dickens published The Pickwick Papers and ignited a trend. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1851 in 40 installments. Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina was published in Russia from 1873 to 1877.