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Sea Trenches: A Short Story

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The school was great, even if it was the only one in the deep sea trenches. The school is not that big but school was school. Tim and all the students had to be very careful and quit when they all went to school. There were dangerous predators left, right, up, down and all around. Blenny, one fish student, last month decided to swim as fast as he could to the school and swam right into a predators mouth. So everyone had to be careful not to attract attention.
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