The Deep

by Rivers Solomon

They all watched together in the remembering as hundreds of sharks gathered to share a feast of bodies that looked so much like them, just like wajinru. “They’re killing us!” someone screamed. Shrieks and sobs erupted throughout the womb as they saw their brethren, sistren, and siblings gobbled alive by massive white sharks. “Wait!” someone called. In the remembering, they swam closer to the site of the slaughter, putting themselves in danger of becoming victims of the massacre. “Wait! Look! It’s not us. It’s not us!” Closer up, the differences between wajinru and the strange floating bodies became clearer. Their tail fins were split into two. Two legs.