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    Scary monsters

    Oct 28, 2021 3 minutes
    Sam Llewellyn

    his is true. Honestly. There we were, and I, trundling along off the Isle of Mull in a flat calm, when we saw something swimming between us and the shore. I know what whales look like, and it wasn’t a whale. I know what porpoises look like, and seals, and people, and it wasn’t any of them either. It had a head, and a sort of serpentine back end about 10ft long, though it might have

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