I had to limp while bent over all the way across the lot and was pretty much as far from where I had encountered mom and grandfather as I could be and still be in the parking lot. That is when my streak of good luck continued. A familiar van pulled up and I recognized […]

Re: Alvin Ever After: Alvin in the Fourth I felt something latch onto my ankle and before I knew what was happening and before I could get a lungful of air, I was pulled off my board and underwater. Struggling to get back to the surface, I fought with what seemed to be an octopus. […]

Re: Alvin Ever After: Alvin in the Fourth I want you to image the person you hate more than anyone else on the face of this planet. Now image they just ate the piece of cake you had been thinking about all day long; the same piece of cake, which you had put your name […]

  Setting up on my board I looked back to Gary who I could only just see waving an encouraging arm in the air. I looked toward the land and could see two surfers about halfway between me and the crowd who from my vantage point looked like a massive flesh toned blur. I looked […]

  I quickly splashed my face with one hand while Gary was holding my other. It was weird because as I was splashing my face it felt as if the pain in my leg was draining down and out of my toes. Gary plucked a couple pebbles out of my arm as he said in […]

Re: Alvin Ever After: Alvin in the Fourth I was sure to stay out of the competition area and was out far enough that I could slide off my board, slip off my shorts, and swish them back and forth in the water to get them clean… well cleaner than they were. I was also […]

Re: Alvin Ever After: Alvin in the Fourth Day 13 I had no comprehension of time and had no idea that I’d slept through the evening and night. I was still sound asleep when a loud noise suddenly woke me. It was the sound of the rear door began to open. The blinding light from […]

  When I ran as far as I thought I could, I finally stopped while leaning against a very pungent restaurant trash container. You know the type, about the size of a sub-compact car, all-metal and painted an awful greenish-brown. It smelled of meat that had been left out in the sun for days. However, […]

Re: Alvin Ever After: Alvin in the Fourth Twenty-seven surfers were eliminated from the competition on the first of the three-day event and two dropped out due to injuries. That left only 67 of us and today’s waves were bigger and meaner than yesterdays as we were getting the skirtings of a storm that was […]

Re: Alvin Ever After: Alvin in the Fourth Day 12 We got no sleep as we both sat up all that night watching whatever was outside our cave. When the sun was almost ready to come up, we became more and more alert because whatever it was seemed to be moving closer and closer to […]