Skipper is a goldfish who dreams of escaping his small tank to live freely in the underground rivers. He hears stories from other fish at the pet store of those who dared to jump to a different tank and either succeeded in their dream or died trying. Skipper has devised a plan to jump from his tank to a nearby tank, and then to the toilet, which will lead him to the rivers. After training vigorously, Skipper is ready to attempt the first jump in his daring escape plan.

1. Stephen Sutphin
April 2, 2014
Prof. Harold Blanco
FYS 100
Mission ImSplashAble
Everybody has dreams right? Well, us goldfish do to and they are hard to accomplish
in the way that we are housed. I want to make it down to the rivers that flow under
the streets and live out the rest of my life. I had heard stories from the pet store
when I was there of fish making incredibly daring jumps, if you made it then you get
the dream of having a different tank. If you didn’t make it the odds of survival were
terrible, almost every fish that didn’t make the jump, lay there and died a slow and
painful death. My name is Skipper and this is my plan.
My tank sits on a table beside another tank, and this tank has a direct shot to
the big white bowl, what the humans call a “toilet”. This toilet leads to the
underground rivers that I long for so much in my life. I schemed a daring plan and
decieded that I would jump the rim of this tank and land in the other tank Following
this plan I would then jump again and land in the toilet where I could then swim
freely down to the underground rivers. I have been training for the first jump for a
while now, its been very vigorous but I’m finally ready. HERE WE GOOOOO….