Janet Stows Away
A love story. Janet has to escape, and becomes a stowaway on a cruise liner.
Twelve hours out of port, my alarm sounded. Half an hour later, I was ready to go to work. I walked from my dayroom into the office, then across to the exit door, and pulled it open until the magnetic latch clunked against its opposite part. Ahead was a glass wall; beyond, I could see a deep blue ocean and the horizon that divided the sea from the paler sky. I looked around, then ambled forward into the centre of the brid...