The book is "A Calendar of Tales" by Neil Gaiman and the tale is the March Tale. It can be downloaded here, in PDF and Audiobook.
For those who doesn't know the book, it was an illustration contest in which first, Neil Gaiman asked some questions about every month on twitter waiting for people to answer them, then he picked the one he liked best. After that, there was the contest (no, I didn't aply! /o/).
"The first of the March rain fell, then, and Mrs Riley surprised her daughter by getting up from the porch swing and leaning into the rain, so it splashed her face like sea-spray. It was quite out of character for a woman of such respectability.
As the rain splashed her face she thought herself there: the captain of her own ship, the cannonade around them, the stench of the gunpowder smoke blowing on the salt breeze. Her ship’s dead would be painted red, to mask the blood in battle. The wind would fill her billowing canvas with a snap as loud as cannon’s roar, as
they prepared to board the merchant ship, and take whatever they wished, jewelsor coin, and burning kisses with her first mate when the madness was done..."
TÁ LINDO!!!!
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