“You Jelly?” by Tony Southcotte vs “Presto” by S.K. Long Greetings, short story lovers, we have a whale of a prompt for you this week. Moray eels. Killer whales. Leviathans. Sharks. Scylla and Charybdis. Since as long as humans have been able to think, they have looked out over … Continue reading
The mist at Rialto Beach was so dense that they couldn’t see the water until it had flattened and spread across the sand. Behind the fog, waves crashed in deep bass tones, exploding into crackling froth just beyond their sight. They were among the first people to arrive that day, … Continue reading
The steel scaffolding of the oil rig surrounded the divers, encasing them in the skeletal spine of the structure. Time mattered down here in different ways. Cognitively Ricky knew that it was just past noon on the surface, and that the hot gulf sun was beating down on his friends. … Continue reading
