An urban legend about a haunting phenomenon occurring in a little beach town becomes a news story when escalating incidents lead to the beaching of what appears to be a telepathic whale.

Genre: Science Mystery

Excerpt:

“You’re looking for a story.”  

“Yes.”

“My story.”

“That’s right. What’s your story? Where did you come from? How did you get inside that whale?”

What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story?
You’re barefoot in the sand on a beach, and the waves runs over your toes. Describe what you’re feeling.
Source: Source: 500 Creative Prompts. Copyright © 2019 Piccadilly (USA) Inc.

Faster Fictioneer
I held my first free writing workshop over Zoom to teach my method of writing short stories (an abbreviated version) on 11/8/2023. The workshop is based on my course, called “Faster Fictioneer: A Doable Method to Write a Short Story from Start to Finish in Five Weeks.”

You can watch a replay of the workshop here: FASTER FICTIONEER

(You can also buy the course there.)

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Here’s the other episode on whales that I mention in the outro: The Watchers of the Whale

CREDITS
Story: “The Incident at Soruquenty Beach” Copyright © 2020 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production:  Nila L. Patel

Music:
“Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background” by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)*
“Monochromatic stain”
“Prisma”
“Secret agent”
“Whispers”
“Cold case”
“Mindhunter”
“Profiler”
“As it happenned”
“Unclassified”

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Nicholas Jeudy licensed from GameDev Market
Vocal effects made in Audacity

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net
Find more music by Nicholas Jeudy at gamedevmarket.net
Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. A woman seen from shoulders up, looking down with eyes closed. Her index fingers are pressed to her temples. Above her forehead is the depiction of a sperm whale in left profile. Concentric circles of bright spiky energy emanate from the middle of the whale’s body. The woman’s left wrist bears a hospital band with unintelligible characters written on it.