The Shark House

Journal Entry

From the journal of Minnow Gray

White sharks are not white. They’re slate gray, the color of wet ash left over from a bonfire on the beach. Whoever named

the animal must have seen it from underneath, looking up at its marble-white underbelly. In science speak, it’s called countershading, a form of camouflage. And it reminds me of the first time I saw a white shark while I was in the water.