The Trip.
One
sunny afternoon, one couple was completing their daily Saturday routine. They
would get up, eat breakfast, do some housework and then set out to the pond to
catch fish for their dinner for the following week. They did this routine every
week for the 20 years they have been married and nothing changed. This
afternoon was going to be a little different but the couple did not know that.
The couple got
to the pond and began to cast their lines. After a few minutes the first fish
was caught, it was the usual, halibut. A few hours passed and they had caught
enough halibut for their dinners. The last catch of the day was caught by the
wife. She reeled in her fish to see it was something different then halibut. “Well
this is new” she thought. She called over her husband and he examined the fish.
He did not even know what type of fish it was but they decided to keep it
anyways. Curious, the couple wanted to eat this fish immediately. When they got
home they prepped the fish and began to cook it. While cooking the fish, they
noticed a colorful steam was coming from the fish but did not think anything of
it. Finally, the fish was cooked and they were ready to eat.
After a few
bites, the couple did not notice anything different. It tasted just like the
halibut did. They continued to eat it until it was all gone. “Weird, that fish
was the same as the halibut but just looked different” they thought. Little did
they know, they were wrong. After an hour or so passed, they began to realize
this fish was far from their usual halibut. The couple began to feel really
different and they started to see things that were not there. At this moment,
their trip started. Coincidentally, both the wife and husbands trip were
linked. So what was happening in ones mind, the other could see and experience
as well.
The couple
was in an underwater world. They were able to swim and breath underwater just
as the fish could. They began swimming around and exploring this new
atmosphere. They swam over to a dark cave. This was a bad decision because in
the cave was the king of sharks. The shark noticed that the halibut population
had steadily been decreasing since the couple started fishing in the pond. The
shark was not happy about this and wanted to punish the couple so he started to
swim after them. This turned into a giant chase when finally, the shark
captured the wife. The husband tried to get his wife back but lost where they
swam off to. So he set forth to find his wife. He swam and swam to find his wife and thought
about giving up until he heard her voice. He swam over to where his wife was
only to see her tied up with vegetables and spices. The sharks were cooking her
just like the couple cooked their halibut friends. They were seconds away from
dropping her into the pan and closing the oven door when suddenly the couple
woke up gasping for air. They realized everything that happened was all a
dream, they never went under water or met the king shark. The fish they had
cooked earlier happened to be a psychedelic fish and after eating it, the fish
took them on a wild crazy hallucinogenic trip.
Authors Note:
I read the story The Woman
Stolen by Killer Whales from the Native American Marriage Tales unit. I
chose this reading solely based off of the title because with a title like that
the stories you can imagine are endless. While reading the story, I realized that
I could definitely write my own story based off of this. A quick summary of the
original story is; a married couple are fishing when they catch a new fish.
They realize the fish is different than their usual ones they caught but
continued to keep the fish anyways. The wife went to wash her hands off in the water,
when she was captured by a whale and dragged under the water. The husband went
after his wife and eventually saved her. I used the same concept as the
original story but my own modern twist to it. I also wanted the story to be
somewhat realistic. Although going on a psychedelic trip is not common for
most, it is not impossible. I like to write about stories through dreams
because I feel like dreams are where you imagine the most and are most
creative. e sHe
