You humans think I spend my life swimming under the sea, floundering through the reef, and jumping across the surface. That life in the ocean is a cool, breezy existence of fun and play. The truth is I spend it avoiding things that want to eat me. Ferocious predators like sharks, eels, and even whales. Dangerous things that want nothing more than to open their mouths and have me float on into them. For lunch, dinner, or everything in between. Really I could avoid them all. But I can never outrun the one eater that takes me for granted: you.
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Very Short Stories & Drabbles
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