drabble day 22: message

the message in the bottle was in a foreign alphabet. korean or Russian maybe. but some water got in and symbols have sort of melted. green and blue ink dripped down smelly brown paper with fuzy white mold sprouting from one of the four corners. the smell was more like urine than ocean. i took a picture and stuffed the paper back in the bottle, but the cork broke and i had nothing to stop the smell, so i left it behind on the beach i still don't know what the note says. but I'll never forget that rotten smell.