Stories tagged “alligator”
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Murky Part IV
In a moment of crisis people say that the brain switches into “fight or flight” mode. This means that as a large, monstrous Florida alligator was lunging out of the water toward nine-year-old Bree, its wide open mouth about the size of Bree’s ent...
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Murky Part V
Eventually the giant gator’s aggression settled and he sunk back into the lagoon. Bree used this opportunity to drop from the tree and make a quick exit. The next day, she brought a small yellow plastic box with her into the swamp . When she popp...
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Murky Part VI
Bree watched The Alligator Prince eat from her tree. She could no longer see the meat in his mouth, but he was thrashing his jaws, so she assumed he must have still been chewing. “You’ve ruled here alone for a long time, haven’t you?” she asked...
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Murky Part VII
For the next six days, Bree spent most of her time in service of his majesty the alligator. She took daily walks to the private lagoon to feed Beast. The first few times she was met with the expected violent entrance before the prince would devour the ...
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Murky VIII
The kingdom had been invaded. Adults crowded around it in thick clumps. “The biggest damn alligator I seen,” a man said to his video camera. “I’m tellin’ you, was bigger n’ my goddamn house!” Bree scrambled between sets of legs to find he...
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Alligator
On a sunny day in August, I walk on a path on swampy ground in south Florida. I am brought to a quick stop by an alligator, basking in morning sunlight and blocking my way. It snaps its jaws at my approach so I’m obviously disturbing it. I try going ...