Theresa Katan
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Seeing eye to eye
I felt the water changing. Slowly but steadily the depths pulsed around me, pressing against my eyes and igniting my lateral line. I could smell the richness drifting down in the water and the temptation to meet it on its decent was so great I almost gave in, but I waited. My fins cut through the water strong and smooth sensing my surroundings as I swam. It was now only a few meters above me sinking closer to the ocean floor I paced waiting for it to impact. The carcass of the sperm whale was fresh, it smelled only a few tides dead. As it connected with the sea floor muck and sand billowed into the water clouding my sight. The smell of the recently dead whale mingled with the sulfuric mud clouds the whale had kicked up as it landed. I could not wait any longer I swam directly to my meal and closed my jaws around the thick, rich blubber of the whale.
By Theresa Katan5 years ago in Fiction
The breaking ice
I was running. I was running to a place I knew I had been before, only not exactly. My body was exhausted, knees aching, feet sore after each thud on the ground, the impact of each step julting my system. No breath left my lungs, no large gulps of air taken into my body from exhaustion. I was also not able to tell my body where to go. It was going where it wanted. No thought, no decision, it knew as it always did. I started falling, slipping, jumping; my feet hit the ice slamming into the lake. Submerged completely into the frigid water my hands pressed against the ice. I knew the struggle would come next, unable to free myself from the water trapped under the ice I kept pushing, struggling to free myself. The locket fell out from its prison within my shirt. I saw the heart float in front of my eyes reaching for it as it sank deeper into the abyss.
By Theresa Katan5 years ago in Fiction
