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Getting Off The Island
“What's the matter, Mel?”
“I'm trying to get help for us, Charlie.”
“But I already put a letter in a bottle and threw it in the ocean.”
“What'd it say?”
“I wrote – ‘HELP, WE'RE ON A DESERT ISLAND. ALL WE HAVE TO EAT ARE COCONUTS AND WASHED-UP FISH.’ Then I gave them our last coordinates before the boat sank.”
“But it didn't work.” Mel had a point. They were still eating coconuts and fish heads. “That's why I've written this manuscript. People should respond to a manuscript.”
“But will it fit in a bottle, Mel?”
“Well, Charlie…That's my problem.”
From Guest Contributor David Sydney
For the prompts Manuscript and Letters
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