The similarity between a message in a bottle and a blog post has been fascinating me for a while now. It’s just yearning for a short fictional story and one has been lapping at the shores of my imagination for some time.
Problem is that I can’t identify the twist to give it a bit of umph at the end.
Maybe one day inspiration will strike 
Messages in bottles are characterised by cries for help for any person to answer. It’s a lovely idea but, on the Internet, we are one click away from the nastiest people in the world as well as the nicest. I wonder what it would be like to be contacted by people from the darker side?
One more thought. I’ve recently been thinking about longevity and writing. Perhaps the Internet will make us all as immortal as Shakespeare and our bottles will bob about in people’s minds for ever.
Rob
(Rob Hopcott – online author, castaway in a sea of Internet dreams)
