Writing Prompt

“Not one stinkin fish today”. My cousin was out here yesterday caught 5 bass over 5 pounds. I can hear her rubbing it in, “Whos the hammer in the family now”! Ugh….the embarrassment is almost too much to bear. I’ll give it 20 more minutes. The river was especially beautiful tonight. The way the light of the full moon hits the river surface makes it look like a mirror. The mirror is reflecting moon...

Fishing on the peir

Late at night

Nothing bright

Not easy to fright

A soft glow in the water

An alien amung fish

I cast out my net

intrigued by the fact

The moon shines bright

And I pull up a star

Blinking and twinkling

Hot to the touch

A star in my clutch

I pulled up a star

And I will never forget

That night oh so bizzare...

It was a calm night. The bright full moon was flawlessly reflecting on the unmoving surface of the Baltic Sea. The soft breeze carried a salty smell through the cold dense fog that slowly floted over the ocean surface making it seem like an ocean of clouds.

Many had tried to warn the fisherman, they told him that paddling through the sea at this late hour would be too dangerous, that evil creatu...

A brand new GoodYear Silver Line tire that was the weirdest thing I had ever pulled up from the sea in my net until him. When I was a boy fishing with my father, I loved the adventure of the sea. We would wake up in the dark and head out to the docks. Dad’s boat was called Frisky Business, named after a joke I. never understood. I remembered every trip on the Frisky was so exciting.

Being a fish...

He had put it in her tea. It was not so fast acting as to be obvious. In the late evening she had dozed off in a favoured armchair, her face to the fire. She did not weigh much anymore. He had cried, and then carried her to his truck.

Now, in the pale moonlight, with the swells of the sea gently padding against the sides of the boat, he did not know if he could go through with it. Thirty ye...

I am blind so I feel

a sharp tugging in my tail

somewhere beyond the seaweed

you can find me now

Hang me up and stuff me

Show me off somewhere

out beyond the seaweed

standing in the now

Fooled me with crab meat

imitation friendly

are you dirty, fiendish, hungry

do you even know

I am not a mudskipper

I am not a mermaid

I am the reason

NASA stopped searching

Somewhere beyond the seaweed

Somewh...

In the light of a full moon fisherman caught what look like a fish? The fish has a head of a wolf the fish howled in the fisherman‘s net. It was a were fish or a wolf fish? It was a fish that would turn into a wolf in the full moon. Fisherman realise that you found a rare find and rather than kill it tried to capture it it howled and growled and bit him. He released it back into the water with a s...

The fisherman stared at his catch, his raspy breath caught in his throat.

Buried between richly colored scales and sea foam stuck out a pasty five fingered hand.

He stepped closer, swaying with his ship. He peered at the appendage, pale blue mood light casted it in a eerie glow.

He jabbed at it with a long hook, used for bringing in the net. It doesn’t move.

Kneeling down he begins to dig it out,...

“Gary, get over here and help me reel this in!” I yelled, concentrating all my effort on maintaining my grip on the worn handle of the net. Gary hurried over, placing his rough hands above my own and thrust his weight to help me reel whatever creature had found itself trapped in our net.

“Geez, Jim,” he heaved, the exertion evident in his voice, “I told you didn’t I. The moon offers her gifts wh...

It was normal for me to go fishing in the middle of the night. After all I liked the silence and serenity and I also loved fishing. So for me, it just made sense. Though, after what I found tonight…I might just stop fishing all together.

It started out normal, I unpacked my supplies and sat down on the edge of the dock. After setting everything up I started to fish. After a few hours I stil...