Oddly Enough by Kim M. Watt

Author:Kim M. Watt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780473610678
Publisher: Kim M. Watt

Fred didn’t have a sign out. He didn’t have an office, either. But he did have two small aluminium dinghies pulled out of the water by the fishing dock, and they had rod holders on the sterns, and the outboards were padlocked to a beam inside a rotting wooden shed that stank of old fish and tobacco.

“Sure you can take one out,” he said to Tim, scratching his belly through a hole in his ancient green jumper. “You know how to use one?”

Tim admitted that it had been a while, but that he was pretty sure he remembered the basics.

“Course you do. Like riding a bike.” Fred gestured the younger man to help him slide one of the dinghies into the water, and stepped into it in his wellies, making it bob violently. “Nice day, anyhow. Can’t get into much trouble on a day like this.”

It felt alarmingly quick, the speed at which Fred got the engine in and showed him how to start it, then ran through the controls, clapping Tim on the back and laughing when he almost fell over backward trying to get in. Then the old man was hooking a mildewed lifejacket over Tim’s head, telling him to stay in the bay and clear of the rocks at the eastern point, and the painter dropped into the bottom of the boat with a painfully loud clang, and Fred pushed him off, and then it was just him and the growling motor. Tim stared at it, then back at the dock, then out to open water. Oh, he thought. Oh, I’m doing this, then. And he carefully pushed the gear lever to forward, and grabbed the throttle on the tiller a little too tightly, and puttered toward the sea.

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