A NEW SEA ENGULFS YOU…
YOUR PRESSURE GAUGE REACHES UNFATHOMABLE LEVELS AS THE DEPTHS CRUMPLE YOU AND YOUR DREAMS OF ADVENTURE…
YOU ARE LEFT WITH NO CHOICE BUT…
To participate in the Wanderers' Depths writing contest!
Introduction
Imagine yourself floating on an open sea…There's no land on the horizon, only the endless lapping of blue-green waves upon your buoyant self.
There's a ship approaching. On it, there is a band of pirates. For a moment, you're worried they'll make you walk the plank, but what's that going to do—put you back on the water? No big worry.
Passing you by, the ship seems to be full of merry seamen. You're happy for them. They seem to be having a good time between raiding and pillaging. You wish them well as they go along their way.
Now, as they shrink on the horizon, there's a seagull circling you. It wants food. Shaking your head, you direct it to the ship of pirates. Maybe they can be friends.
Beneath you, a shark emerges from the depths. It's a nurse shark, and she wants to take your temperature. You allow it. The reading shows that you're very chill. Now that's something everybody can enjoy.
This is all on the surface, but there are endless stories to be told on or below the high seas.
Rules and Friendly Guidelines
Ahoy, me hearty Wanderers! The Library Crew has noticed an ever-increasing and mildly distressing amount of land-based articles: Whether it entails sneaking through the shelves or runnin' through the streets, plenty o' recent stories have been drained of any waterlogged potential. Well the end is nigh fer this! The 2020 Maritime Contest—The Wanderers' Depths—is an individual writing contest based on works that take place on or under the Seven Seas (or anything related to the Maritime). Anyone can participate, as long as you promise to have fun!
Write about it with the help of the prompts below, and tag your story with 'wd2020'. You can post starting today, April 10, until a few weeks from now, on May 7.
Once the posting period is over, we'll let people read and let you know how they feel with votes and comments until May 7. The winner is whoever has the most upvotes on their entry by May 7, and their prize is to pick the article featured on the front page for the month. The winner will be announced May 8.
Contest Rules
Prompts
Entries
Entries, Ranked
Entries, Randomized
↬The Sea Sings of Hunger, told by Percevale
↬Bladefish, told by Zero_Consistency
↬Marigold Sailors, told by BIRDCHURCH
↬The Inlet at Aulis, told by (user deleted)
↬Stuck, told by stop1010
↬Sailing Through The Cursed Forest, told by Joll
↬How the Ocean Came to Burn, told by Tufto
↬Mermaid Teeth, told by Henzoid
↬At the End o' the Sea, told by Its a Bad Idea
↬Children of Nergul, Volume IX, told by Trar
↬Quiet, Uneventful Affairs, told by UncertaintyCrossing
↬The Mist is Hostile, told by Marceline_Raynes
↬A Rising Wave, told by GuesssWho
↬Apate, told by morrel
↬A Deeper Truth, told by Hexick
↬Unseen Things, told by Almarduk
↬Seeing Stars, told by Sudough Nimm
↬Deeper, told by Communism will win
↬Twelfth of Ater, told by Akhlys
↬Cave Story, told by Lt Flops
↬Prodigal, told by (user deleted)
↬Ten Billion Sushi Dinners, told by Thick Soup
↬All Aboard the Cyclops, told by Doorhandle
↬Survival, told by Kothardarastrix
↬A Tale of Taniwha, told by (user deleted)
↬Palaemon, told by Din-Bidor
↬Tâmtu-me-šara, told by (user deleted)
↬The Kraken's Crackin', told by Reasonably Psychotic
↬Calypso Rides Her Catamaran, told by Luvview
↬Pontus Euxinus, told by Akhlys
↬An Ode to Babashe, told by Zebby Fresh