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Hamako and the Tentacle Monster.
Something stirred in the still, clear water of the tidal pool. Limber tentacles coiled and slowly writhed in the deep green shadows of the kelp.
Marooned in the tidal pool by the outgoing tide the creature cautiously explored its new surroundings. Its tentacles slowly caressed the weed-green rocks as it pressed itself into a corner, and wriggled deeper into the clean white sand.
Beyond the tidal pool the sea continued to retreat. Gulls cried and wheeled overhead, soaring black and white shapes against the clear blue sky, their shadows sweeping across the sand.
Breakers crashed in long white lines the length of the lonely sandy beach. Sometimes the spray thrown high and wide reached the pool where the creature was stranded. Try as it might the creature lacked the strength to haul itself over the rocks from the pool and back to the ocean.
It was a young creature never seen there before. A deep emerald green in colour with slick and glistening tentacles and round and watchful eyes. The other inhabitants of the tidal pool shied away from it. The corpses of those who had been slow to flee lay crushed and dismembered on the sandy floor of the pool.
The sound of the breaking waves grew faint. Now the spray fell short of the tidal pool. The kelp hung limp and glossy and from its shelter two large white eyes stared unblinking out upon the creature's shrinking world. Its tentacles coiled over themselves in slow and ceaseless motion.
As the sun rose higher the water in the tidal pool grew warmer and the creature rested with infinite patience.