Student Blogging Challenge: Week 3 – Activity 4; Write the beginning of a story relating an image.
Captured by Warren Keelan: http://www.boredpanda.com/author/warren-keelan/
Above Water
Stay, they’ll bring the boat back ’round…
I’d hurt my back when I got flung off. It was all I could do to try and keep my head above water.
Find the boat…
If I could do that I would be fine. You’d think, being a reasonably sized vessel, it would be easy to spot. Apparently not.
Stay above water!
This is getting harder. Paul had left the life jackets on shore to ‘make room for the catch’, though we didn’t need it. I could use a life jacket right now! I’m a good swimmer, but it seems like every time I take a breath, I’m shoved back under.
Where’s the boat!?
Okay mate, hurry up… I’m panicking now. Maybe it’s just my imagination, or my energy exhausting , but the waves seem to be crashing harder now, and more frequently too. Where are they?
Probably made a run for it…
NO! Don’t think like that…They, they saw me! Josh was on the deck with me. A wave crashed over the starboard side, pushed the boat down… I slid down the deck, flipped over the side. They saw that.
They knew today was going to be rough…
Yeah, so did I. I was stupid for agreeing to go with them, here of all places. Where are they! There’s not enough time to look for the boat anymore. The weather is worsening. Making it to the surface to get a breath is hard enough.
You knew they were being dodgy…
STOP! They’re coming, they’re just navigating the waves! It was just a fishing trip, not a murder mission. Soon they’ll come past and I’ll be able to hurl myself over the side. Then we can get out of here.
They aren’t coming back…
Dun, dun, dun!!
I think it would be really cool if people continued the story in the comments. I’d love to see how it unfolds. Take it to wherever you want. Have fun!
Yours faithfully,
Grace
