Mar 4, 2014
Writing Prompt: “Being inexperienced and having just
made….”
15 minutes
15 minutes
“Why would they ever have let Sandy at the
pole first? Clark fully deserved to fill
that seat. He’d have known what bait to
use. Being inexperienced and having just
made the catch of the year, of the decade really, Sandy had no idea how to reel
it in. All I heard was big splash. I was at the cooler getting a cold one when
it all happened, Officer, huh, Delaware.
When
I turned around, ole Sandman was being pulled through the water like rag
doll. The captain was no help. The old salt’s only thought when he saw the
giant squid was to put the throttle down.
All that served was to tick off the beast, as it got a jet of water in
its nicotine yellow eyes. Squinting and
glaring something horrid, it wrapped its titanic tentacles round the yacht
pulling it in 'twain. The severed ship went
down fast, she did. Paul and Martin managed cut
loose the diving dingy and scramble into it paddling away like mad men. I hollered after them, but to no avail. I just held fast to the beer cooler cause I know styrofoam floats. That’s how you found me bobbing there, sir, by the way. I guess the beast doesn’t
like his meat well marinated.
Last I saw of Sandy he was pulled into the
brink. The Captain, well, he’d be a guest
of Davy Jones. He went down with his
ship saluting."
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