Thursday, October 27, 2016
The Bloodied Ship
The wood of the ship creaks as it drifts, isolated in a sun-filled sea. Above deck the sails are open ready to catch wind, however the deck is lifeless, the only way to tell humans have touched this ship at all is the viscera spread across the deck. Unrecognizable bits of tendon, muscle and flesh paint the boards. When the ship is found it will be assumed the bloody mess simply came from a hunted whale; however, this is not the case. Everyone asks if or when a zombie apocalypse will occur, never realizing instead of wiping out earth, it decimated the crew of a poor whaling ship.
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4 comments:
Wow....I love this story. It's almost like a poem to. Also, all the vocabulary like viscera instead of just using intestines. Then, describing the "dead" ship. Then, ending with an unpredictable situation. Good job!
Wow! I love this post because you go into great detail describing the bloodied ship, like "the viscera spread across the deck". Also, I learned what viscera means!
Yeah, I agree with Kevin and Niff: viscera = best word choice ever! I also like the phrase "sun-filled sea". I thought viscera would be a hyperlink because it's red, but it's not. What was your purpose in making the word , and then the next sentence, red?
Whaling is a dangerous business.
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