Here are the first twenty five of fifty sentences for the OneSentence challenge at Live Journal.

#01 - Motion
Harry loved sailing, loved the sway and creak and scents of tar, salt and sun, and that first morning, as the Pearl gently rocked her awake where she lay abed in arms of her lover, she felt she'd never known a happiness so complete.

#02 - Cool
Jack knelt on the bed, stripped the covers from her in spite of the cool morning air, and had to smile with lascivious joy at the beauty, blushing laughter, and beseeching arms that lured him back to her embrace.

#03 - Young
They'd told him she was the Governor's "baby" sister, but the fellow had to be deep on the shady side of forty, so until Jack laid daylights on her it never occurred to him that Henrietta Fanshawe, nee Swann -- a dowager duchess, no less -- might be so bloody young.

#04 - Last
"Jack... please!" she gasps, but he smiles, quite evilly, and drawls, "Patience, darlin', best to make it last."

#05 - Wrong
He might have resisted temptation, for he had before, with Elizabeth (a chit of a girl, of course, but still); and he would have, for it was wrong, all sorts of wrong, wrong in a hundred ways, from nearly any one's point of view -- save Harry's, of course, which made all the difference.

#06 - Gentle
"We shall have plain speaking, Elizabeth: there are gentlemen and gentlemen, for I've had 'em both, and, I must tell you that my Gentleman of Fortune is far more the gentleman than my late Gentleman of Fashion ever thought to be."

#07 - One
A hen with one chick, that's what she was, but Harry was quite determined not to spoil little Tom any more than was inevitable with such parents.

#08 - Thousand
Harry had slipped from the bed at nature's call but, when she didn't return betimes, Jack rose too and went to find her and gather her close, where she stood transfixed at the Pearl's open gallery window, basking in the pale light of a thousand stars.

#09 - King
"When I grow up I'm going to be king!" announced Tom, to which his father chuckled, "Not king, but p'rhaps captain, which is much more better, my word on't."

#10 - Learn
"There may be much you will have to teach me," she'd said, with a faint blush, but Jack smiled, smoothed her furrowed brow and kissed her, anticipating lessons that would be pleasurable for skilled tutor and apt pupil alike.

#11 - Blur
For Harry, the hours leading up to the birth of their son seemed quickly lost in a blur of happy wonder at the joys of new motherhood; for Jack, each moment of that day and night seemed etched on his brain with terrifying clarity.

#12 - Wait
The days, weeks and sometimes months of waiting were no less difficult for the captain's wife, the privileged mistress of St. Claire Island, than they were for the poorest sailor's lass.

#13 - Change
Jack grimaced and steeled himself for the task ahead, forbearing to wake either his exhausted wife or any of their servants to come change his fussing son's soiled nether garment.

#14 - Command
"Come with me, dinner can wait," Harry said, pulling him toward the bed, and Jack obeyed with alacrity, grinning at the thought that an afternoon spent in watching him captain the Pearl through that squall had inspired his wife to her own sense of command.

#15 - Hold
The life experience of each was very different, but when they turned to each other in the dark hours of the night, whether easy and velvet soft or black with dreadful storm, they were as one, and complete.

#16 - Need
It was always like this when he first returned, reserve and strength of purpose both tossed aside in a fury of mutual need so desperate there was barely time to shut their bedroom door against the world.

#17 - Vision
The notion of Captain Jack Sparrow settling to faithful congress with one woman had always seemed such an absurdity that he thought he might be going a bit mad -- or madder -- when his initial adventure with Elizabeth's aunt resulted in daydreams of a disturbingly domestic nature.

#18 - Attention
Harry was furious when little Tom's reluctance to attend St. Claire's day school was found to be due to the new instructor's way with a birch switch, and Jack was even less pleased at this reminder of various painful episodes from his own childhood, seeing to it that Mr. Avery Theocritus Woolfolk was sent off on the next tide.

#19 - Soul
She loved him, heart and soul, and it was so different from what he'd thought love to be that it astonished and humbled him, and at the same time raised him up from the depths to which circumstance had brought him.

#20 - Picture
"Sit for a portrait?" Jack had exclaimed, not at all pleased, and spent the next month complaining and twitting the artist Harry had hired to such an extent that she was quite surprised when her husband was overcome with silent admiration on seeing the finished work.

#21 - Fool
Anatole and Louise, who took the greatest pleasure in tempting the appetites of their patrons, and adapted their Gallic receipts to make use of the fresh comestibles of St. Claire, beamed as Harry exclaimed in delight over the Mango Fool they had created, though all Jack could find to say was, "Where are the raspberries, then?"

#22 - Mad
Teasing and temptation seemed to be Jack's avocation when home on St. Claire, and it was apparent he also thoroughly enjoyed Harry's subsequent efforts at revenge and retribution.

#23 - Child
A child: my flesh and bone and blood -- our blood, mine and Harry's, Jack thought, and the fragility and potential of it stunned him as he stood alone at the rail of his ship, under the night sky.

#24 - Now
Patience... patience... but the slow building of passion, maddening sweet and utterly compelling, finally drew them both, wide-eyed, into the maelstrom, grasping, drowning, shattering at his whispered, "Now!"

#25 - Shadow
That first time he bedded Harry, he took the greatest care for, in spite of her obvious and understandable predilection for Captain Jack Sparrow, he knew it would take courage on her part and perseverance on his own to dispel the shade of the Duke of Wyndham, her late, unlamented spouse.

To be continued...