Third Sunday Write for November Wednesday

That is, the Bloomington Writers Guild’s “Third Sunday Write” session’s prompts via Facebook (cf. October 24, et al.) came Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving this month. And, holidays being busy times, I didn’t get to it until today, Friday.

Still that’s pretty fast for me — as well, a challenge posted on the 23rd being only three days after Sunday, the 20th, not bad at all for the creative exercise session in general.

Anyhow — cut to the chase — I selected the third of the four choices offered, to write on the theme of “What does the sunlight catch?” What I wrote is this:

The sunlight casts mostly in the shallows, the open ocean depths leading too quickly to an opaqueness. The square of the distance, something like that, or maybe the cube — it adds up swiftly. But even whales come up to breathe, and over their bulk a new kind of shallowness, light reflecting from white, leathery bellies when they do their somersaults. Still, whales tend toward bigness, and with that great weight, and while sunlight draws water up, even whole oceans through evaporation, it’s not all at once.

Lighter loads are more favored.

The sun likes puns also, and not just the rhyme. Lighter loads; sunlight — get it? But it can be argued whales rise to the surface through their own power, it’s not just some fluke. (“Aha,” the sun murmurs.) And sea serpents too, krakens as well, for what would be the point in being a monster if no one can see you? And anyway sunlight does not favor monsters, better to let them lurk in their own shadows. No, sunlight, when angling, has its own agenda.

Its preference: Sunfish.