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The Last Fish<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013\u2013 is an Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, or \u2018Finn\u2019 to his mates. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kathy Halliday<\/strong> is a Creative Writing MA student and graduate of the Creative Writing and English Literature BA programme at York St John University. Her work appears in The Cadaverine<\/em><\/a> , Little Fiction<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 and Turbulence Poetry<\/em>. She lives in York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Last Fish \u2013\u2013 is an Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, or \u2018Finn\u2019 to his mates. He was once one of 30 million tapioca eggs. You can sponsor Finn for as little as \u00a31.00 a month. You\u2019ll receive a special certified adoption pack and a cuddly toy. He\u2019ll even write to you when he\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7370,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions\/7370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe was once one of 30 million tapioca eggs.
\nYou can sponsor Finn for as little as \u00a31.00 a month. You\u2019ll
\nreceive a special certified adoption pack and a cuddly toy. He\u2019ll
\neven write to you when he\u2019s not busy launching ships or
\nperforming card tricks at little Jimmy\u2019s 5th birthday. He\u2019ll
\nupdate you on his progress at least three times a year. On a
\ngood day, his body becomes a blue-black capsule, capable of
\nstreamlining up to 40 miles per hour in chilly Atlantic waters.
\nHe would prefer to stay in bed, spend the morning in his Y
\nfronts watching Ice Road Truckers and drinking milk, straight,
\nfrom the bottle. Sponsor him today and you can choose
\nbetween a window sticker and a fridge magnet. He dreams of
\nperforming at the Super Bowl\u2019s half-time show, but his voice is
\na bit pitchy at best. He did meth once with a school of
\nHerring, but the slim-sheen of their bodies created a silver
\ntornado that gave him a bad trip. He didn\u2019t sleep for weeks.
\nVery soon, he\u2019ll take a boat out to the Gulf of Mexico, in the
\nhope of miraculously spawning against all odds. He is an
\nanomaly, and is more likely to be picked up off the coast of
\nTokyo, and auctioned for sashimi at Tsukiji fish market.
\nHis body is worth millions in yen, and when they split him
\nlengthways down his underbelly, they\u2019ll find only pink-red fronds
\nof meat, and the remains of a child\u2019s rubber pencil topper.<\/p>\n