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BONUS: Choose Your Own Adventure – You’re in a Boat

There are 50 unitalicized words in this story, not including line numbers. The italicized words are instructions: you may choose one option and go to the appropriate line to continue your adventure!

Have fun!


1.You’re in a boat.

Line 2: Jump out.
Line 3: Eat lunch.
Line 4: Raise pirate flag.

2. You’re swimming.

Line 1: Get in the boat.
Line 5: Eat lunch.
Line 6: Dive.

3. Yum! Now you’re full.

Go to Line 1.

4. You’re in a fearsome pirate boat.

Line 2: Jump out.
Line 7: Attack a freighter.

5. Soggy food! Yuck.

Go to Line 2.

6. You’re on the ocean floor.

Line 2: Swim upwards.
Line 8: Attack a freighter.
Line 9: Explore.

7. A lubber lops off your hand.

Line 10: Staunch the bleeding.
Line 11: Shoot the lubber.

8. You are chopped up by the freighter’s propeller.

The End

9. You drown.

The End

10. While bandaging yourself, you are shot.

The End

11. You bleed to death.

The End

Dead Man’s Audience

The kayak rolled with the swelling of the ocean. Its lifeless occupant had stories to tell; the forensics officer in the nearby boat was certain of that.

An eruption of bubbles at the rear of the boat wasn’t a loud enough warning to prevent him from becoming the second victim.


This story was based on a prompt from @brucerytel.