100-word Story a Day Challenge cont.

Story 2

A single blue crab gripped the inside of the cage Eric hauled out the Chesapeake. His boat mimicked the dance he made around Nati-Boh cans, sloshed in starlight. Eric dropped the cage onto the deck and did not care it was broke open.

The 20ft vessel shook as its outboard started. Eric darted between buoys and slurred his daughter’s name into the spotlight. She would be in front, waiting for another boat ride, if he could say her name sober. He focused into the distance and opened his throat. Eric yelped as the crab’s pinchers tore into his sandaled toes.