Then Carlos had a better idea. To avoid the fish leaping back into the sea, he decided to dig a hole further inland, and put rocks around the perimeter. Then the fish wouldn’t able to “escape.” He dug the hole quickly. While he was placing rocks, Debbie saw something odd-Looking.

“Ugh! This one’s scary. Get rid of it, old man,” she said, pointing at the offending fish.

Carlos looked at the fish. It was really a hideous-looking little creature. Grey, Lumpy, spines around the mouth, huge, black eyes, and just unappetizing in general.

“Throw it back into the water,” he said.

Debbie didn’t even think that it would look good cooked. She danced around it, loath to touch it at all.

“You throw it. Hurry before it dies,” Debbie said.

Carlos dropped the rock in his hand and came over. He looked at the fish with disgust obvious on his face. Finally, he picked the fish up by its tail fin and threw it back into the water.

waste no time building a fire to cook up

thin rock and a broken shell of a red scallop. He scraped the scales with the shell, holding it nearly flat against the fish, in long, hard swipes. Starting at the tail he scraped his way towards the head. Then he flipped it over and did the same to the other side. He paused for a minute to rest. This wasn’t the easiest work, and the hot sun didn’t make it any easier. Finally,

went through the same process. One for him,

the gutted fish to the water and washed them. It was salt water, true, but it was the best she could do right now. Carlos took them back and put them back on the flat part of another

he had a pile of

a stick and

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was the best they could do

equipment. Finally, after what seemed like forever, their bellies were growling, but the flesh of the fish had

bite. Positive that it was cooked, he

Debbie.

“Have some.”

no one comes to find us?” she asked worriedly and took a bite of the roast fish. Yuck! It was bland,

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