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Captain Squiggles ending

The room is dark when Chris walks in. He flips on the light. The ceiling fan is turned on high and his coworker is reclining in the staff chair again. He wonders if maybe they were too hard on Captain Squiggles this time. Squiggles really wants to be a pirate. Instead he has to settle for a job at Microsoft. Chris walks closer to the Captain and saw he was grinning and on the table beside him lay an opened bottle of unmarked pills and a half drunk glass of water. Chris ran out of the room screaming for someone to call 9-1-1.

The old ship lurches forward over the next wave. Just then Captain Squiggles sees on the horizon a fleet of British war ships closing in on him. They are all white and sometimes flashes red. The Captain’s eyes glistens.

“Every man to a cannon!â€? Captain Squiggles roars.

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