I was walking on the beach with my dog when he suddenly discovered this.

My dog never gets scared. That day, he froze. Hackles up, backing away from something lying in the sand like it didn’t belong to this world. I felt it too—that cold, instinctive dread. The closer I walked, the worse it looked. Some swollen, pulsing mass from the deep, covered in bubbles and stinking of rott… Continues…

I circled the thing, heart pounding,continue reading …