#BlogBattle “Shenanigans”
by Kassi
A young couple sat on a beach watching the shenanigans of a few teenage boys. The young woman, tall, emerald-eyed, and strawberry blonde, ambled toward the warm ocean water for a quick wade.
Abruptly, the ocean’s water disappeared and she raced back up to her sun-bathing husband. He looked up with a worried glance.
“Mikayla, what’s wrong?”
Mikayla gasped for air and muttered, “Water . . . gone.” She gasped for more air. “Tsunami!”
The couple alerted the beach-goers but all were occupied watching their children and others running to observe the shells and dying sea-creatures left behind. They captured the attention of a few teens and children who hurried to grab their younger siblings, parents, and anyone else they could.
Mikayla’s husband, the six-foot-four, turquoise-eyed, chesnut-haired N.U.M.A. scientist, guided all to the stone staircase etched into the wall of the steep cliff. Mikayla made sure everyone at the top was safely away from the cliff edge.
“Anthony, hurry!” Mikayla yelled. “The wave, it’s coming!”
He soon reached the top of the staircase, his muscles strong from all his years of field work, manning boats.
As the wave was within fifty feet of the doomed beach-goers, screams of children and parents alike were heard.
A man who was at the clifftop stared as a young woman with gray-blue eyes and a head of caramely-brown hair stated, “Alki, alki, ” and then disappeared into the teary-eyed crowd.
Powerful imagery in this one. Nice. π Is Kassi your daughter? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
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Thank you. π I’ll be sure to tell her. π She is my very own. You do bark up the right tree. π
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Intense story, well done, Kassi!
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She says, Thanks! π
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Wow powerful stuff π
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Kass will be so pleased to hear it. π Thanks, IBFF. π
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That was powerful….
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She’ll be pleased to hear it. She’s become a Clive Cussler fan of late, so his writing has been inspiring her (along with her vocab words from school. LOL She’s responsible for shenanigans. π )
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I somehow thought she was responsible for the word – I don’t know why… I was a good story, captured the urgency and the tragedy. She could also write it from several differnt points of view, but it was good. Pat on the back for her! π
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