Two boardwalk vendors stand overlooking an astonished throng gathered around the latest oarfish to wash ashore, a fourteen footer.

“What are we going to do?” asks the younger Vince. “This is happening more and more.”

Maki, a veteran in the business, replies, “When life brings you dead fish, make Sushi.”

Anthony Geist was inspired as an undergraduate in the lifelong pursuit of writing by two English professors. Geist’s publications include Slingin’ Slang: The Perusing Parlance Series, Sublimely Flawed: The Art of Being Flagrantly Human, and FROM THE HIP daily: News You Can (T)Rust, under the penname “Tony Baconetti.”