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Submitted to Contest #83
Anyone who has spent much time on the water and can tell you that there are spirits there, other beings. That is, they can, but they probably won’t. It’s not worth their while to try to convince you or explain it to you if you’re skeptical. They’ll size you up pretty quick and might pretend that they don’t know this, or that they have forgotten, but they haven’t.Most of us have a story about how something inexplainable saved our lives. For some, it came while you were out diving by the reefs, bereft of the diving partner you tell your parent...
Submitted to Contest #78
One Tenth the Woman Ted talked about his boa incessantly. He named her “Isabelle”, which sounded ridiculous to me but then my naming skills generally extend to calling snakes “Snaky”. I’m not a fan of snakes in general. I’m not afraid of them, I used to be but then I ‘scared straight’ myself out of that when I was in high school. My boyfriend Mark and I used to go to the Zoo in L.A. several times a week. The reptile house there is really impressive, twisty, warm and dark. I’m leaving out an important part of this self-designed therapy...
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