Hooligan Navy: A Short Story
by TK Kenyon
Price: Free! 15940 words.
Published on August 8, 2011. .
When Eve Johnson, home during the summer of 1942, witnesses a Nazi U-boat torpedo a merchant marine ship off the Nantucket coast, she is determined to stop the attacks. The Coastal Picket Patrol, AKA the “Hooligan Navy,” forms to scout for U-boats, but they won’t induct girls. Eve vows to scout on her own, even though her family and the Hooligan Navy itself tries to stop her. (50 pages)