Writing prompts:
- Write a story where something unusual is found hidden on the sandy beach.
- While you’re out swimming one day, you see a dark shadow in the ocean…and it’s coming towards you.
- Two complete strangers meet at the beach one day, but by the end of their trips, they’re best friends.
- A beach seagull won’t let a group of beach goers enjoy their trip, but what they don’t understand is the seagull is trying to tell them something.
- Where are all the beach towels, swimming goggles, and beach umbrellas going? One by one they keep disappearing, but everyone claims to be innocent.
Mine: You find a letter in a bottle…but it’s written in a foreign language…one that the main character actually understands.
Finally.
It’d been a long week, but I was finally at the beach.
I inhaled a deep breath, sucking some of the salty ocean air into my lungs as I dropped my beach bag down on the sand. There were a few others nearby, splashing in the water or sitting underneath a towel reading a book, but aside from them, the beach seemed vacant.
I wasn’t complaining.
I set up my umbrella and towel and after putting on some sunscreen, I headed for the water, rubbing my now-slimy hands together. I reached down to wash the sunscreen off my hands in the pretty blue water, but just as my fingers touched the ocean, I froze.
Was that a bottle?
Why was there a glass bottle floating in the water?
I snatched it and held it up, realizing there was a folded piece of paper inside. “Wow—” I couldn’t believe it.
This was the kind of thing that happened in books and movies, not in real life.
Curiosity got the better of me, and I opened the bottle pulling out the note. Drying my hands on my bathing suit, I pulled out the note and began…to read the message.
Wait.
HOW was I reading the message?
Or better question…who wrote the message…and how did they know my family’s secret code?
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