“Western wind and open surge / Tore us from our mothers, / Flung us on a naked shore”

[larryhammer]

My reaction on reading Lieutenant Hornblower for the first time since a teenager:

There’s got to be a ton of Hornblower/Bush fic out there … right? *quickly checks AO3* 567 is close enough to a ton — faith in humanity confirmed.

---L.

Subject quote from Opening poem to Stalky & Co., Rudyard Kipling.