Crab Eggs and Acid Seas
Shaueel Persadee writes ocean parables for our times. These inhabitants of an undersea community are under threat from the world over which they have no control. Persadee is an education officer at the Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust. He also writes a creative blog https://shaleics.wordpress.com/ Claude and Pinchino scuttled across the reef, their spiked legs gripping and pulling them across corals and through the sand. Both were carrying gifts, small tokens held carefully between their pincers, for their friend who was expecting. Shelly’s eggs were supposed to hatch today and her two best friends, who were also crabs, were now hurrying toward her home in order to give her gifts. Claude carried a shiny trinket in the shape of an “S” that had fallen into the ocean from a human invention called a car, and Pinchino carried a seaweed blanket. By the time they arrived at the home, underneath a large staghorn coral, both were blowing bubbles while regaining their br...