Dark Caribbean

<p>When I wrote this story I never imagined that my lifelong fishing partner and I would find ourselves in the Caribbean. I also never thought I would have false teeth but here we are. Even more surprising I never thought any of our crew my partner or I would be holding automatic rifles. But there we were facing thieves who had forty or more of our lobster traps stacked on their deck.</p><p>Their boat looked like a refuge from the storm but when I saw a barrel emerge from a broken window I knew it was time to pull the trigger. Three men crawled up onto the boat's roof rifles in hand. I opened fire with my AR-15. The first guy dropped his rifle and it clattered to the deck.</p><p>I fired a burst straight up and shouted Start the engine and throw our traps over the side and maybe this boat will get you home!</p>