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Thea Wood's avatar

My hook is crooked

Reflecting from the sea floor

Waiting for release

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Honeygloom's avatar

Wow, the suspense packed into this is so good🖤

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Thea Wood's avatar

🐙 Thx!

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Daniel Baldwin's avatar

Many arms embrance

The ship’s keel, timbers shatter

Like a brittle spine.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Such a horrifying description. I love it so much🖤

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Ocean of deep space

Home of Ship Leviathan

Holds its captives close

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Honeygloom's avatar

Wait, there’s a space Leviathan?? Your haiku is very intriguing🖤

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

I’m writing a new SF story titled “Leviathan, the Prison Ship”

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh cool! Sounds terrifying! I don’t read nearly enough sci-fi, I need to check this out when it’s done.

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Will be part, I hope, of a second book of SF stories, so should be awhile.

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Honeygloom's avatar

I’ll just have to be patient then😊

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Yeah, your prompt made me think of it. Have a spooky day!

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erniet's avatar

Lurker in the depths

The skerries form as you rise

Tentacles thrashing

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Honeygloom's avatar

Very cool scene, I love that there are several ways this scene could play out🖤

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David Perlmutter's avatar

Recently observed playing hockey in Seattle.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Must be a great defender!

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Nico Sakaki's avatar

A shift in the deep

Sailors splinter into bone

This is how it ends

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh man! I love that you mirrored a boat’s timber splintering with a man’s bones!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Hmm… I wonder if the kraken dies after spawning like squid do??

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Not if they grow into sea monsters. “Release the Kraken.”

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Honeygloom's avatar

Perhaps we’ve been misinterpreting the phrase ‘release the kraken’ and it is actually something all the hatchlings say reverently to their mother as she shuffles off her mortal coil.

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