Piraг±a 1 ⚡

The thick heat of the Amazon hung over the water like a wet wool blanket. Mateo, barely ten years old, sat at the edge of his family’s wooden pier, his bare feet dangling inches above the dark, tea-colored surface of the Rio Negro.

How should the story continue? One option is to explore what happens next when Mateo's younger sister accidentally drops something valuable into the water, or perhaps skip ahead to when a grown-up Mateo returns to the river with his own secrets. PiraГ±a 1

Mateo didn't put his feet back down. For the rest of the afternoon, he watched the river, certain he could see a hundred pairs of tiny, unblinking eyes waiting just beneath the surface for Piraña Two. The thick heat of the Amazon hung over