Blog #2 October 25, 2016
Welcome back to Fright week scary Halloween stories…
Copyright © 2013 by K. Lorraine Books
This story is fiction, but it is based on the day I watched two fish and wildlife officers catch a live gator in my Florida home yard.
I noticed countless fish leaping out of the water. They were trying to escape the alligator’s powerful jaws. I observed a lasso pitched into the troubled lake water.
Beads of perspiration soaked the men’s shirts. It seemed the trappers had the upper hand. The gator was the neighborhood mascot alligator. But it was about to befall the baiter’s snare.
The gator twisted and turned to free itself from the trapper’s noose. I watched the sideshow from inside my Florida room.
I snickered when the cold blooded creature botched its seizure. It was a happy sight when it returned to gorging on the lake fish. What harm was the beast, causing? Our lake was a no swimming allowed lake. So, there wasn’t any concern for the loss of human life.
The gator got its fill on fish and never ventured onto land. Small dogs and cats didn’t tempt the beast of the wild either. It was content to come and go through a waterway that led to the Gulf of Mexico.
I thought about it. I was pleased to think, that there would be no delicious gator tail tonight on the restaurant’s menu.
This was a snarky kind of a scary fish tale, but I hope you enjoyed it anyway…
Happy Halloween,
K. Lorraine
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