About Taste Test: Walk the Plank

by Angela Benedetti, Mara Ismine, and PD Singer
43 pages / 18500 words
ISBN-13: 978-1-60370-764-0
ISBN-10: 1-60370-764-6
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Arr! Pirates abound in the Walk the Plank Taste Test. From Boarding Action by Angela Benedetti, where a prank pirate attack on a friend's yacht goes horribly wrong for Cam, at least until he gets matey with his high school crush Markus. In Cannons and Honor, by P.D. Singer, Captain John Bull rules the seas, and he rules young Leigh Westman, who offers himself as a captive to save his sister's honor.

Finally, in Mara Ismine's Life on the Ocean Wave, ninja ballet pirates flourish after a successful raid, when Floats-like-a-butterfly shows Hits-like-a-falling mountain all about the pleasures of booty. See what pirates get up to below decks in Walk the Plank!

Sample

Boarding Action
by Angela Benedetti

Camden Embry yanked a T-shirt over his head, swept his discarded dress shirt off the bed, and sat down in its place while fishing his phone out of the pocket of his good slacks, which were tossed across his pillow. He pressed the button for his best friend Ted's number and listened to it ring while fishing wallet and keys and all that crap out of the pockets of his slacks and stuffing them into the pockets of the jeans he'd changed into.

Finally, Ted picked up and Cam said, "Hey, I'm free! Aunt Tisha cancelled on us at the last minute, and Mom and Dad decided to stay home with the cats. Let's go do something before they come up with something cultural to drag me to."

"Awesome!" Ted said, then called, "Hey, Cam's coming over!" to whoever it was making all the noise in the background. "Come on over and bring your pirate gear! You've still got it, right? We thought of something great, and it'll be better with you along."

"Yeah, I do, sure." All four of them, Cam and Ted and David and Stone, had gone as pirates for Halloween their senior year in high school, so they all had costumes and swords and stuff.

"Cool! And bring your bathing suit!"

Cam could hear Ted snickering and alarms started to go off, but then the jerk hung up on him before Cam could ask any suspicious questions. He knew Ted; Cam wouldn't get any information out of him 'til he showed up, so he stuffed his phone into the pocket of his jeans and headed over to the closet to stuff everything he'd been ordered to bring into a duffel.

Twenty minutes later, he was over at Ted's place, pulling on his pirate gear.

"It'll be awesome!" Ted was chattering on while packing sandwiches into a cooler. "She told Stone she was going out on the Selkie with her dad today, and with that pirate attack over in Heyden Bay, this'll be perfect!"

"Sure, so long as Mr. Donovan doesn't shoot us or something." Cam wasn't totally convinced that two weeks after an actual gang of modern pirates had looted a yacht less than thirty miles away was such a great time to stage a fake pirate attack on a friend's boat, but Marcia Donovan was kind of crazy herself, and her dad was been pretty cool the dozen or so times Cam had met him, so it should be fun. Besides, with all of them dressed up like extras from Pirates of the Caribbean, it'd be obvious they were just messing around, even if Marcia didn't recognize them the instant they showed up.

"Right, like he's got a gun on his boat," Ted scoffed.

"I don't know," David said, "my mom brings her thirty-eight when she goes out in ours now." David sounded like he was having second thoughts, but Ted just glared at him and shot him in the face with a water pistol that looked like an Uzi.