Story: The Trip

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.

           

underwater world

            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.

Dreaming

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