A STACKED DECK

Definition of a ‘stacked deck’ : to arrange things against someone or something.
Not enough lifeboats meant the lives of 1,500 men, teenage boys, and women and children traveling steerage, were downgraded to the bottom of a list – a pecking order stacked against their chances for survival, consigned to the bottom of the sea.
But there were 600 deckchairs on Titanic to do double-duty as rafts.

 

 

 

 

“Years ago, I sat in the replica Titanic deckchair in the Maritime Museum in Halifax. Later, when I wrote ‘The Unthinkable Shoes’ it was easy to slip into a fantasy where one of my characters drinks tea, sheltered from a brisk crosswind on one of the promenade decks – a woman also sheltered from the event that will soon devastate her life. Tea in a deckchair would never be the same, for her or for me.” – author V Knox

 ‘THE UNTHINKABLE SHOES’ –– a TITANIC-inspired novel by V. KNOX

EVERY GHOST was once a child; EVERY GHOST has a love story

– a novel of Literary Fiction /Magical Realism to be released on or before April 15th 2016, the 104th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.