Suddenly he’s an expert on whales. Their weight, their songs…

…evolved from land animals the size of goats. And eat 5,000 pounds of fish every day. If they still lived on land…

Tuning him out, I watch the whales. Imagining all the delicacies they missed out on, settling for krill.

Kayleigh Shoen is a writer and teacher in Boston, MA. Her stories have appeared in X-R-A-Y, Milk Candy Review, [100 word story], and elsewhere. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College. Her tweets can be found at @Whowantssoup.