From: cluac@csv.warwick.ac.uk (D S Bevan)
Newsgroups: alt.ql.creative
Subject: Water water everywhere Part 1
Date: 17 Apr 1994 15:36:43 +0100
Organization: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Message-Id: <2orhhr$2oe@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk>

Hi everyone---hope you're all Ok and loverley!
This is the first part of a tale that is nearly complete---any comments would
be welcomed--if you wanna post privately that's fine or to the net that's Ok
too....
Anything will be considered--I will post more when I get back for good
so for now enjoy and see you soon!


	"WATER WATER EVERYWHERE....."
		PART ONE

	16th March 1987



It was the first time he could ever recall falling.Admittedly there'd been
some terrifying moments in his lifetime--he remembered, with a shudder, an
electric chair--but falling from a considerable height with no idea of what
was coming up to meet him sent him into a spasm of fear.
	The worst part of all of it was there seemed to be no reason for this
fall; he was fully clothed--even a pair of brown sandals on his feet.And it 
was dark too--apart from a faint glow somewhere to his left.The number of 
times he had leaped into strange situations had made every little detail 
become obvious to him in seconds.
	Yet seconds were all he had before he hit the cold water. He went 
under unprepared--after all, he was unable to cope with the concept of falling
from a great height,let alone hitting water.He took in a lungful and noted,
with a certain amazement,that it was salt water.So this information led him
to the conclusion that he could be in the sea somewhere.As he came up from
under the water,coughing and spluttering,Dr.Sam Beckett thought that it could
not get any worse-after all,he was miles,years even,away from home,had no idea
of who or where he was and currently in a situation where he was literally
grasping in the dark.So he began to swim a little,taking it easy since he 
figured that there wasn't any rush and that any moment now his friend from
the future,Al the hologram,would appear and fill in the gaps.
	Suddenly there it was;it caught his eye,gliding swiftly through the
water from the left to right--a shark fin.Gasping for breath and trying 
desperately to find his feet,he swam as fast as he could,reflecting only on
how foolish it was to believe that things couldn't get any worse.
	"Oh, boy,"he gasped in between strokes.


To Be Continued........
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Any comments welcome--positive or negative!!
Keep leaping,
Darren