Driving Test
The clerk finally called Robert's name. He stood up and approached the counter. "...
From the kayak Tommy could see everything below him. He could see twenty, thirty feet below. The light made funny patterns on the bottom of the sandy floor of the bay. The leopard rays sailed across the bottom like huge magic carpets. The coral sparkled with little fish darting in and out. Schools of fish swam back and forth, up and down, and around and around above the seafloor. In a moment they would dart left, and he could see all of them reflect the sun with their silver sides. Then they would dart another direction, and they were barely visible again. A big grouper moved out of the coral then slipped back in to hide. A barracuda, like a long rocket, hung motionless, waiting for the right moment to wield his sharp teeth with the force of some medieval weapon. There was a whole world in the bay below Tommy.
The clerk finally called Robert's name. He stood up and approached the counter. "...
Tommy let the stick go and watched its tumbling path towards the water. Just before it hit...
He stood on the edge of the boat, gazing down into the blackness. The rope that fell away ...