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Results of U-Write-It Week 209

“You won’t believe what’s out there,” the lighthouse keeper said to his assistant. “Just now, through the rain and wind, I saw a...”

...deeply lurking adventure. An adventure to change a life, maybe for ever."

"Who's life?" His assistant asked.

The lighthouse keeper smiled at him. "He who takes the invitation for the greatest adventure life can offer."

His assistant looked at him confused. "I saw nothing, no adventure. I didn't get an invitation, but you did."

The lighthouse keeper turned from the window, to stare at his assistant. "I am too old for an adventure like that, you should go, as you grow older you can share your adventures."

"No one is too old for an adventure," his assistant said smiling.

The lighthouse keeper said good bye to the home he had stayed in for years an hour later as he turned back to wave to the new lighthouse keeper.

An adventure, the one he had been waiting his whole life for was just ahead, and he wasn't wasting any time, he thought as he sped up.

by Samantha Potter, Utah

...waterspout of mirmaids rise outta the sea!"

The assistant eyed his aging boss with concern then peered out the rain pummled window. Forked lightnig lit his view, and he froze when he saw the frenzy of seaweed haired fish women spinning and dancing in the misty whirlwind.

"Don't just stand there! Get the video camera!" the light keeper ordered.

The assistant grabbed the camera that hung on a nail by the window and flashed it on.

"We'll be rich!" the lighthouse keeper whispered as he watched the sirens spin with their scaly tails flapping in the wind. "CNN, NBC, CBS...we'll sell the video to every news station in the world!"

"Crap!" The assistant stopped short. "I forgot to put a tape in the camera!"

by Christy Kodilanen, Norfolk, VA

...a ship un-sinking!"

His assistant frowned. "Un-sinking?"

"Rising up out of the water like a ghost or something."

The assitant moved to the oval window and focused a telescope out into the night. "It is a ghost! A ghost ship! Tinker's Doctor went down out there fifty-seven years ago! We've got to call somebody!"

"Aw, this happens all the time. It's best just to keep it between us."

"You've been a lighthouse keeper for sixty years! Something like this could make your retirement! But you won't tell anyone?"

"How do you think I've kept my job these last sixty years?"

by Phillilp Lynne, Knoxville, TN

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