WISHFUL THINKING (standard:Suspense, 510 words)
Author: JAM	Added: Feb 07 2005	Views/Reads: 4033/0	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A DAY AT THE BEACH.

The lifeguard sat in his favorite cahir in the watch tower, over looking
the beach and the ocean.  A faded sun unbrella kept him in the shade.  
The beach was busy, people were in the water and in the surf, and on 
the beach, thare were even some people at the small concession stand 
buying food.  He sat up and looked out into the water, thare wer twenty 
five people swimming or floating in the water.  The surf was calm so 
thare were no surfers.  He sat back and relaxed a little.  There had 
been reports of sharks near a beach in the south, and all lifeguards 
were on the look out.  Execpt him, he knew that thare hadn't been a 
report of a shark attak, or sharks near this beach.  In over two years, 
and in any way  if a shark did attack some one, the chances of dieing 
were vary small, and if a person did die, the family had a body to 
burry. The lifeguard sat up agian and looked out into the ocean.  He 
saw a man floating on a rubber tube, the man was clearly asleep, he had 
a straw hat pulled down to cover his eyes.  He was driffting away form 
the group and out to sea.  The lifeguard had no choice, he had to wake 
the man up,  the air horn would dop the trick, and it wouldn't panic 
the other people for they knew about the horn and what it meant.  He 
bent over and picked up the horn and sat back up, and looked for the 
man so he could blow the horn.  The man was gone, the rubber tube was 
still thare but the man was gone.  Thare were a lot of people in the 
water and not one of them had seen the man disappear.  The lifeguard 
put down the horn and reached for the button to the siren, but 
hesittated, thare were children in the surf and if he pushed the button 
for the siren, the people would panic and run out of the water and 
trample the kids.  He looked out into the water agian, his eyes widened 
with horror, thare was a woman paddling out on a surf board even though 
the waves were calm, she had a black bathing suit on, but that was not 
what was scareing him, thare was a shafow under the water and it was 
following the woman.  The shadow was huge.  He looked back to the surf 
the kids were still thare.  He looked back towards the woman, and as he 
wachted a long thick tentacle came out of the water behind the woman, 
it paused for a second and then grabed the woman around the neck and 
pulled her under the water without a sound.  The kids were out of the 
surf, and he pussed the button to turn on the siren. And as the 
panicked people ran out of the water.  The lifeguard sat back in his 
cahir, under his unbrella, and silently wised for sharks. 

the end. 


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