Prompt: You are on a whale-watching boat trip. When whales surface near your boat you suddenly realize you have the capacity to comprehend their language of whistles and croonings. You scuba dive to catch their every utterance, and surface to record their litany. What do they tell you?
Written: July 16, 2015

My response:
This may sound crazy. No, it will sound crazy, but the whales spoke to me. They told me that they were dying. No one believed me when I told them. All whales went extinct eighty years later.