Dooley wiped his brow with a greasy hand. He had spent three hours churning and fiddling with the engine’s crank.
“Three hours, and this fu'king ship still won’t crank!”
Dooley threw his pipe wrench against the wall, grumbled, and leaned to pick it up. Then he saw the empty outlet.
“Winslow! Stop unplugging my engine! Bloody hell. Captain. Engine’s fixed. You're clear for your hot bath.”
“Three hours, and this fu'king ship still won’t crank!”
Dooley threw his pipe wrench against the wall, grumbled, and leaned to pick it up. Then he saw the empty outlet.
“Winslow! Stop unplugging my engine! Bloody hell. Captain. Engine’s fixed. You're clear for your hot bath.”
The prompt for the Chimera 66 Challenge #14 at Grammar Ghoul Press is the word "crank," a noun meaning "Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc."
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