Speed bag drill #002: Mysterious deaths

So speed bags work this way:

Once you finish reading the prompt, you start moving your pen on paper or you flash those fingers across your keyboard, and you keep going for at least five minutes. Today’s speed drill comes from “Findings,” in the June 2013 edition of Harper’s:

Experts were unable to explain the washing ashore of a thousand starving sea-lion pups in California; thousands of dead prawns and crabs in Chile; hundreds of dead puffins in eastern Scotland; hundreds of cormorants, garnets, guillemots and razorbills, both living and dead, in Cornwall and Devon; five live seals in New Jersey (including one at the Taj Mahal, one at Avalon, and one at Loveladies), and tens of thousands of small fish, twenty-four dolphins, two penguins and at least one leafy sea dragon in South Australia.

Experts don’t know, but you do, don’t you? Now go write the tale of what’s REALLY happening to our planet–before you run out of time!

Coming tomorrow: a new Knockout Idea . . . from Ariel Levy!