Ghostland by Edward Parnell

Author:Edward Parnell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-09-17T09:51:32+00:00

A sign warns CLIFF FALLS ARE FREQUENT AND DEADLY.

In the distance I see a group of three figures. Through my binoculars I make out a middle-aged couple and their son, a rangy teenager, heading towards me; the woman is to the seaward side of the man and holding him by the hand, skipping aside when a surge overshoots her expectations. The lad’s further back, striding alone, his hands in his pockets.

We too walked this same stretch of beach, all that time ago, though then the crumbling cliffs would have extended metres beyond where now they collapse in on themselves.

Do you remember?

I stare into the haze. How did we miss its approach? A figure formed of sea spray that must have hung there, unseen, for a moment – a play of the light above the shingle – before it dissolved to nothing.

The ephemeral pied piper who whistled you away.

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