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.
Hi Geena! I like how you decided to put your own modern twist to the story because it made it really interesting for me to read. You are a really good writer- when I was reading, I could actually picture everything that was happening because you made the story so visual. I also liked the pictures that you included in the post as well. Good job!
ReplyDeleteAwesome story! As I was scrolling through your stories, my attention was caught by the pictures that you added. They are so fun and colorful while also accurately representing your story! I like how you made the story a little more modern and gave them hallucinations in a dream-like state. I totally agree with you, dreams are somewhere you can be extremely creative and things don't necessarily need to make sense!
ReplyDeleteHi Geena! This was an amazing story. On a random note, I love the background and theme of your blog! The photos that you added to this post really make it vibrant and super fun to read. I love how descriptive everything was, it was so enjoyable! I like how you kept it realistic but also a little different! Great job!
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ReplyDeleteI thought your story was really fun to read! I like how you added your own modern twist to this story. It made it more realistic. I also liked how they both were experiencing the same thing at the same time. The picture that you added was a really great addition to your story as well. Overall, great story!
Great story!! I love the spin you put on the original story! It was a very modern twist to make it a hallucination from eating bad fish!! One thing that could have made the story better was if you incorporated some dialogue into the flow! It would have given your story even more detail! Overall, great story! You really created a fun twist to the original story!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they stopped eating fish after that! Or maybe just not fish the look funny when you cook them. They probably need to call the EPA about that pond. I liked this story and especially how you changed it from the original to try to make it more plausible. I wish you had described the underwater scene more because I feel like that would have been amazingly interesting. The pictures you chose to go with it though are great. Especially that last picture. It's fun and full of color and really exactly like the story.
ReplyDeleteI really liked how colorful the photos are that you chose for this story (to illustrate the trippiness). I think it was creative how you took the idea of the wife being taken while they were catching fish, and transformed it so that their experience still had to do with catching fish, but happened in a very different way. I also enjoy the way the sharks were going to cook the woman like people cook fish, instead of just, ya know, eating her.
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