Very clever integration of the elements of the challenge! Nice job.

Must have been a seamless integration. I couldn’t have told it was from a challenge. Very neat start to a story, I thought.

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A famous quote: The first line (it was said by anonymous, whoever that is). ;-)
Seven: The number of times the captain nearly died.
Four-leaf clover: The name of the ship.
Fall Out Boy: The captain says those words in the second-to-last line.
My favorite book title: Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card.
Thanks for the kind words! :-D
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this is good, i luuuv this! different from the others

fun,funfun.
lol

I just found this because of some other entry to this challenge and in case you’ve forgotten about it, it’s very good. Just so you know.