A little something inspired by Suzanne Burke’s “Fiction in A Flash Challenge!” Week #7 .
Here is the photo prompt that brought this to mind.
Of all the times they’d gone to the Outer Banks, they had never strayed far from shore. They snorkeled. They beachcombed. They took the sail board lessons but never hang gliding or parasailing. She wanted to try surfing.
“Not for me,” he said, “the channels and the sandbars constantly changing—too risky.”
“Don’t be a wuss, Eddy,” she laughed, “I’m doing it.”
“All right, you go. Just stay away from the fishing piers and the inlets.”
Lighthouses. They loved the lighthouses. Especially the one that had to be moved inland as the shore eroded. It’s the image he saw that reminded him. How she got careless. Careless at that rocky, dangerous shore. The sun between clouds and a high barrier dune, blinded her. She looked away—the wrong way, avoiding the sun’s glare only to catch the flash of the automated lighthouse. She veered too late. Out of the channel onto the rocks emerging at low tide.
Well done, John! What a way to go! It makes me think of a couple of stupid things I did when I was younger.
I did plenty of them. Few of the ones mentioned in the post, though That was all fiction, except the setting. You can find plenty of actual stupid ones in other posts–or in the memoir, Waiting for Westmoreland.
Thanks for your take on my prompt image, John. I will be featuring it along with the other contributions over the next few days. I appreciate you joining in.
Somehow this didn’t get approved in a timely fashion, but that’s all water under the posts, so to speak. 🙂
Well done. Nice to see you jump in Soooz’s challenge 🙂
Thanks for the comment AND the inspiration. 🙂