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| The Walking Wood? |
"Sometimes you wonder, if you met some of the things on the beach after dark, you'd run for home. Does anybody else think this looks like a giant Hallucigenia?
A lot of people die up here, or at least that's the rumor; it's hard to tell. Rumor-to-Rumor is how the news gets around, and since the Makah have gotten cell-phones, the news spreads in Neah Bay even faster.
It's odd not a lot of people get shot up here. Then again, being able to run off to Shipwreck Point in the rain, and have tiny beach fires under the overhanging tree, and suck down a six-pack of the limited beer selection from the Weel Road Deli (forget Killian's Red, but at least they have Alaskan Amber, which is better anyway), and then ranting up and down the beach in the rain until you sober up, probably keeps down a lot of hunting rifle incidents, at least at home. And watching grey whales feeding while you're calming down doesn't hurt, either.
It's odd not a lot of people get shot up here. Then again, being able to run off to Shipwreck Point in the rain, and have tiny beach fires under the overhanging tree, and suck down a six-pack of the limited beer selection from the Weel Road Deli (forget Killian's Red, but at least they have Alaskan Amber, which is better anyway), and then ranting up and down the beach in the rain until you sober up, probably keeps down a lot of hunting rifle incidents, at least at home. And watching grey whales feeding while you're calming down doesn't hurt, either.
Yeah, that's what passes for therapy in THIS place. We may not 'have any mates,' but we have sand and booze and isolation for our primal screaming. Normal screaming, I mean."
I would love to read a story in which the Burgess Shale critters (Hallucigenia, Anomalocaris, &alia) came back (through time travel, supernatural resurrection, timeline-crossing) to menace us with their bizarre body plans and/or bizarre plans for our bodies.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should write it.
Yeah, you should! LOVE the Burgess Shale critters. And why "menace?" Could they not be Chia Pets?
DeleteUh, oh, John. That means you have to write it yourself! Right, Donna? That's exactly what I was thinking right before I started writing [insert the title of any of a number of my own quirky creations]..... Look forward to reading it!
ReplyDelete*drags over comfy chair, popcorn, knitting & beer* New backwoods weird tales, aw yisss!
ReplyDeleteWait until we bring in the Forks Twi-Squatch tours.
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