DIVER-IMITATING FISH-LIFE
"Well, I swam and I swam and I swam. You know how a chase takes you, and
somehow being unable to overtake a mere girl made it worse. But I was
gaining, age and all, until just as I got close enough to sense
something was wrong, she turned sidewise above two automobile tires-and I
saw it wasn't a girl at all"
"I had been following a goddamned great fish-a fish with a bright
blue-and-orange band around its belly, and a thin white body ending in a
black flipperlike tail. Even its head and nape were black, like her
hair and mask. It had a repulsive catfishlike mouth, with barbels."
"The thing goggled at me and then swam awkwardly away, just as the light
went worse yet. But there was enough for me to see that it was no
normal fish, either, but a queer archaic thing that looked more tacked
together than grown. This I can't swear to, because I was looking
elsewhere by then, but it was my strong impression that as it went out
of my line of sight its whole tail broke off."
James Tiptree Jr., Beyond the Dead Reef
Repulsively delightful!
ReplyDeleteHey Mike, where i can contact you about using your ilustrations in a fan-made card game?
ReplyDeleteI already tried this one: michael_bukowski@hotmail.com