Overboard! by Terry Lynn Johnson

Author:Terry Lynn Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Once I stopped moving, I heard the quiet the waves had left in their wake. Instead of crashing, now they barely made a noise like frying eggs as they hissed up and down the gravel. An owl hooted somewhere behind us and I tensed.

“Marina, are you awake yet?”

She mumbled.

I needed someone to talk to so that bad thoughts wouldn’t come. The noises were scary out here, not at all like our backyard with the porch light on and the sound of the neighbors’ TV and of cars driving by.

Suddenly, I heard a loud spray burst out of the ocean.

“What?” I yelped.

Then I recognized the blowing noise I’d heard on the whale tour boat, and my racing heart calmed. I threw more wood on the fire, and watched the sparks rise into the black toward the stars.

I lay back down. “Tomorrow, rescuers are going to find us—​right, Marina?”

No answer.

The sounds of the humpbacks breathing kept me company.

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