The whorefish swims deep below
the wharf, trailing her red light
bioluminescence. The glow attracts all kinds — the wandering-eyed
marriedfish, the red-spotted virginfish, the lumpy-lipped uglyfish, the
twilight lonerfish, the one-finned cripplefish, the shuffling loserfish,
the tattooed prisonfish, the giggling serialkillerfish.
Shunned by most other fish
in the mainstream, she's a pariah, unable to
form any mutually beneficial relationships. If a copfish spots her, he'll
shake her down and chew out a divot from her tail.