The first summer night
Self-Published
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Going to sea, century after century, generation after generation, people have met the same things there - the wind, the waves and a ship with an elven captain coming into port just to restock the supplies...
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- Status
- Completed
- Year
- 2023
- Author
- Ruslan_rb_kg
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- Rating
- 4.5/ 5.0
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- 2
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- 559
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- Basil SerpentRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5The First Summer Night is a short story I read first a few days ago on the author's own site. I enjoyed it then and I enjoy it now.
It's built around a framing device: Twilight gathering and turning into the first summer night of the year. Each time this phrase appears at the start of a paragraph time has moved on, illustrated by the technology around the main character, an elf captain, changing, alongside her human companions aging.
It tells a wonderful, if brief, emotional story, and I like the note it ends on.
The author is not natively english, and neither is the text, as it was machine translated and corrected for errors. It's still good, though. Definitely worth a read!