Posted by jonvon on December 19, 2001 at 20:22:34:
In Reply to: blackwater thoughts posted by giveawayboy on December 18, 2001 at 22:25:40:
this is real good stuff. i like it a lot. we ought to write stuff at each other more often. i like the dream narrative / real life story pastiche, very nice.
: John, I liked your story too. The whole time I was recalling this dream of blackwater I had where no matter which direction you swam it was like you could never really find the surface. Even bouyancy didn't matter since it was all psychological distance and isolation. I recall seeing hints of light in certain directions but not seeing clearly in the water, and also, knowing that at least one angry plesiosaur was loose in the murky depths. i recall the feeling of giant black hell-grouper, and large dark coelocanthii stirring and prowling in the depths of dream reality and mechanical jewelfish that would move about an inch an hour, just hanging like spectres. then, lifting out of the waters of dream and diving into the waters of waking reality, I can reconfigure soft-shelled turtles with their brutal, uninvited heads turned every which way, looking for sixth graders fingers. I can visit one again the slime-shelled musk turtles with their relaxed gothic arches ready to snap into those meaty little morsels. Or the loggerhead we stole from the Ichnetucknee. Then there are those alligator snapping turtles which caused me to go tubing with a mask on. I used to go to the bottom, here we have left black-water, but we still have potential run-ins w turtles. At one point as I was passing a rather large, but not very exciting stump, suddenly, emerging from the hollow of it's rotted inside, there came a huge black garfish, which looked rather curious. This was one of my most favored encounters in nature. To think that I was near such a large, sleek beauty. Wow! I only want to see some barracuda now. That would be great! Thanks for your story which was truly adventurous. I'm sure that if you were into Florida writing, the folks who read that genre would make you a local celebrity.
: Peace, Bill
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