FISH Art Gallery: Chapter 1
So I stood in the last patch of sticky mud before it turned into the liquid patch, and hit at some bits of green poking out of the water’s edge.
All of a sudden there was a ripple and a flash, and a big fish leapt out of the brown water, making a rainbow in the spray as it flew in an arc and landed back - splash! - in the water again.
(Fish, p. 2)
All of a sudden there was a ripple and a flash, and a big fish leapt out of the brown water, making a rainbow in the spray as it flew in an arc and landed back - splash! - in the water again.
(Fish, p. 2)
I poked with my stick gently, trying not to slip. For a moment, I saw nothing. Then, with another stir of the stick, a strange little black shape opened up in the thick muddy water right near my feet. A hole - it opened and shut again, like an eye blinking.
The fish’s mouth! I put down the kitchen pot carefully, filled with nice, clean bottled water, keeping my eye on the muddy patch of water where the mouth had appeared. (p.18)
….Suddenly, I touched the fish. It sank away a little, but then struggled up to the surface again. I saw the open mouth, the mud-covered shape of an eye, and then my hands were around it. Gently but firmly, so it wouldn’t get away, I lifted it out of the mud with both hands. (p. 19)
The fish’s mouth! I put down the kitchen pot carefully, filled with nice, clean bottled water, keeping my eye on the muddy patch of water where the mouth had appeared. (p.18)
….Suddenly, I touched the fish. It sank away a little, but then struggled up to the surface again. I saw the open mouth, the mud-covered shape of an eye, and then my hands were around it. Gently but firmly, so it wouldn’t get away, I lifted it out of the mud with both hands. (p. 19)