Icebreaker

As an icebreaker for this blog, I have posted the first two paragraphs of a story I wrote a few weeks back. Feel free to keep up the trend. Whether they be short stories, poems or the start to  novel, helping people out with their writing is what this blog is about!! Also, vote on the polls :)

The water burned like a fire down my dry and closed up throat. My flailing arms thrashed about in the water like the tail of a drowning dog and although my eyes were open and fresh, salty water rushed up against them, I saw everything and nothing was unclear. The water was cold and icy, small fish swimming at my feet with rainbow scales, which caught the afternoon sun with a blinding light. As I continued to freeze from inside out, my organs gradually giving up and shrinking into something small and less useful, I watched as a giant humpback whale burst out of the water. The sight was definitely something I thought I’d never experience – the water spouting out of its blowhole as it leaped, flipped and crashed back down on its head. But even the beauty of that favourite creature of mine didn’t overcome the fear closing in on my hopeless swimming style and me.

There was no sound around me, only strange clicks, and no light – only the shadow of a very big figure behind me. I gazed in awe as three dolphins swam directly underneath me, their swim so fast I nearly missed shifting my feet from in front of their mouths. They danced with their mouths open, their call the only sound I could identify when I dug my head through the separating line between safety and the pure unknown – air and water.