Synopsis

The assignment loomed over SpongeBob like a particularly stubborn barnacle: an eight-hundred-word essay for boating school. The topic, something about nautical navigation, swam before him with the same frustrating elusiveness as a jellyfish. He knew he needed to focus, to organize his thoughts and craft a coherent argument, but focus proved a slippery thing. His attention drifted first to a passing bubble, iridescent and shimmering. It danced just at the edge of his vision, beckoning him wit